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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] 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] Image Comics Refuses to Voluntarily Recognize Union
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
Image Comics will not voluntarily recognize Comic Book Workers United, which was formed by staffers there this week. The union is a first for major comics publishers.
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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] Netflix hit with unfair labor charge from suspended and fired employees
Read: 31/10/2021 www.avclub.com
After weeks of controversy surrounding its release of—and then vocal high-level support for—the transphobic material in Dave Chappelle’s comedy special The Closer, streaming giant Netflix now faces an unfair labor charge from two of its current/former employees.
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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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