Exercise Your Power
One group of especially courageous workers leading the way are Starbucks organizers who are being heavily targeted by the company. Boycott Starbucks.
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Across the nation and through a wide variety of industries from warehouse workers to UPS drivers to rail workers, nurses and auto assembly line workers, American labor is seeing a much-needed awakening of union organizing and action. Whenever possible, however possible, support American labor actions because if they do better, we all do better.
One group of especially courageous workers leading the way are Starbucks organizers who are being heavily targeted by the company. What can you do to help? Boycott Starbucks.
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Will Starbucks’ union-busting stifle a union rebirth in the US?
The NLRB has brought 100 cases against the coffee chain over anti-union activities – but it cannot punish the company
…”’Starbucks has figured out an ingenious plan to get around labor law, which is: break so many labor laws so fast that the National Labor Relations Board simply can’t keep up in enforcing the law,” said Jaz Brisack, a fired barista who worked at the first company-run Starbucks – the Elmwood Avenue store in Buffalo – where workers voted in favor of unionizing.
“The regional offices of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have brought 100 separate cases against Starbucks – an extraordinarily high number – which together allege more than 1,000 illegal actions, many of them in retaliation against workers for unionizing: from closing stores because they had unionized to reducing workers’ hours after their stores unionized. The NLRB has also filed an unusual nationwide complaint accusing Starbucks of refusing to bargain at 163 unionized stores across 28 states.”...
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