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ALB1 Workers Will Not Join the Amazon Labor Union
The warehouse would have been the second Amazon facility ever to unionize, but the vote was unsuccessful.
Workers Say Amazon Is Punishing Them for Observing Union Vote
“It’s just making it harder and harder to get participants to act as observers when the employer’s telling them they’re going to lose out.”
Ex-Starbucks Manager Says He Was Given a List of Pro-Union Workers to Target
The former manager resigned in January. “I didn’t want to do illegal stuff,” he told a labor board judge.
Apple Accused of ‘Interrogating’ Pro-Union Employees by National Labor Review Board In Complaint
Over the past few months, companies have been ramping up their anti-union activities amid a swell of labor organizing.
NLRB Demands Starbucks’ Anti-Union CEO Record Video, Send Apologies to Workers
The National Labor Relations Board is demanding that Howard Schultz apologize personally to workers for union busting tactics.
Government Sues Former McDonald’s Employees to Comply With Subpoenas About Surveilling Workers
Former members of McDonald's "Global Intelligence Team" must testify about “social media, security, intelligence-gathering, and/or other modalities to surveil employees who have been engaged in the Fight For $15 Campaign.”
Inside the Rural Psychiatric Hospital Staff Call a ‘21st Century Asylum’
“A lot of our patients walk out of there even more traumatized than before they got in there.”
Starbucks Is Shutting Down One of Its First Unionized Stores
And workers are calling it “blatant and illegal retaliation.”
Internal Documents Show Amazon’s Dystopian System for Tracking Workers Every Minute of Their Shifts
The documents provide new clarity about a much-talked-about but until now opaque process Amazon uses to punish associates it believes are wasting time.
Amazon Repeatedly Violated Union-Busting Labor Laws, ‘Historic’ NLRB Complaint Says
Managers threatened, cajoled, or promised additional benefits to workers if they voted against the union, according to the NLRB. The complaint challenges the practice of captive audience meetings, a longstanding union-busting tradition.
Starbucks Fired Another Organizer the Same Day It Got in Trouble for Firing Organizers
The National Labor Relations Board just filed a massive complaint against the coffee giant, alleging retaliation against dozens of union organizers.
Starbucks Just Fired Yet Another Union Organizer
At least four pro-union Starbucks workers have been fired in the week since Howard Schultz officially became interim CEO.