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[Link] The Starbucks Union Push Is So Successful It Could Start a Turf War
Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com
The UFCW filed to represent workers at three Starbucks in Wisconsin. Not everyone is happy about that. The tsunami of union organizing at Starbucks is one of the U.S. labor movement’s most high-profile successes in recent years.
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[Link] Starbucks Is Blocking Union Activists and Workers on Twitter
Read: 18/4/2022 www.vice.com
James Skretta, a former barista who helped organize a union at his Starbucks in Buffalo, retweeted the tweet from Starbucks’ corporate account, which has 11 million followers, and wrote: “@Starbucks official stance on union-busting.
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[Link] Starbucks CEO Announces NFTs to Workers Amid Union Drive
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
In a town hall meeting on Monday aimed at Starbucks workers amid a massive union drive, failed presidential candidate and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz revealed a development that he hoped would excite workers: crypto.
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[Link] Elon Musk Dares UAW to Organize Tesla Factory, Says He Would “Do Nothing to Stop Them”
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Last night, like many other nights, Elon Musk was tweeting. In this case, he was tweeting to Gene Simmons of Kiss about the size and workforce of Tesla’s California plant.
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[Link] How Activision Blizzard employees made CEO Bobby Kotick powerless in just 30 minutes
Read: 2/12/2021 esports.gg
Amidst calls for resignation, CEO Bobby Kotick seemed to be all but untouchable. Blizzard employees proved him wrong in 30 minutes. Someone like Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will do whatever it takes to hold onto their power.
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[Link] Leaked Audio: Amazon Workers Grill Managers at Anti-Union Meeting
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Last week, Amazon began holding mandatory anti-union meetings at JFK8, its largest New York City warehouse, and three neighboring warehouses, where workers recently filed and withdrew a petition for a union election in Staten Island.
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[Link] Amazon Staten Island Workers Withdraw Request for Union Vote
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
The workers had spent months collecting signatures to call for an election.
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[Link] Video: Howard Schultz Compares Selflessness of Starbucks to That of Holocaust Prisoners
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Schultz visited Starbucks workers in Buffalo days before a historic union election that could have reverberating effects across the fast food and retail industries.
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[Link] Starbucks Tells Unionizing Workers 'We Want You To Vote No'
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Monday evening, Starbucks sent a blatantly anti-union email to workers eligible to vote in union elections at three stores that begins on November 10.
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[Link] Amazon intensifies 'severe' effort to discourage first-ever US warehouse union
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A push to unionize workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is running into tough opposition as the retail giant, whose profits have boomed during the coronavirus pandemic despite concerns over worker safety, has launched an aggressive anti-union drive.
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[Link] Hundreds of HelloFresh Workers Are Unionizing in New Jersey
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday, the union filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a union election at the HelloFresh distribution center in Newark. HelloFresh is the largest meal-kit provider in the United States. Its factory workers are also unionizing at a nearby facility in Totowa, New Jersey.
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[Link] Starbucks Temporarily Closes Two Stores That Are Trying to Unionize
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The company said that the two temporary store closures in Buffalo have nothing to do with the union drive—one is for a remodel and the other is for training new hires.
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[Link] Workers At Crime-Watch App Citizen Are Unionizing
Read: 4/10/2021 www.vice.com
The workers petitioned for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on September 22, and are waiting for approval to conduct a union election, according to the National Labor Relations Board filing. They are calling their union the Citizen Central Operations Union.
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[Link] Elon Musk's Brother Wants to Build Utopian Learning Gardens, Without Unions
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Big Green's anti-union stance coincides with a series of outwardly progressive institutions and companies, including art museums, universities, public interest law firms, and green energy companies, taking measures to ensure their employees don't unionize.
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