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Supreme Court sides with concrete company in union case - Roll Call

The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a Washington concrete company’s state court lawsuit over alleged damages from a drivers’ strike.

Roll Call

U.S. employers have gone from opposing international labor standards to hiding behind them. Now a complaint is trying to stop U.S.-style union busting from taking over the world

U.S. employers have shifted their argument. They want not only to protect employer interference in the U.S. but also to normalize it as a global practice.

Fortune

From Hollywood writers to delivery drivers, workers are fed up with the gradual devaluation of their professions

Even though all these workers do different jobs, their fight is the same.

Fortune

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Amazon COVID-19 changes and CEO's anti-union comments broke law, Labor Board alleges

Amazon.com Inc. repeatedly violated federal labor law by unilaterally changing policies and terminating union supporters at its sole unionized warehouse, US labor board prosecutors alleged in a complaint, which also accuses Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy of personally making illegal anti-union comments.

Tribune News Service

National Labor Relations Board files complaint against USC, Pac-12 and NCAA

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles office of the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint Thursday against USC, the Pac-12 Conference and the NCAA, alleging that the three joint employers have maintained unlawful rules by "misclassifying" college athletes in men's and women's basketball and football as "student-athletes" rather than…

Los Angeles Times

Dancers at Los Angeles bar to become only unionized strippers in US after 15-month battle

Dancers at a Los Angeles bar could soon become the only unionized group of strippers in the U.S. The Actors’ Equity Association labor union says that owners of the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood have withdrawn their opposition and agreed to recognize the strippers’ union

The Independent UK

‘The law is finally catching up’: the union contract fight at Starbucks

National Labor Relations Board details slew of complaints and rulings against coffee chain waging fierce anti-union campaign

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Chicago REI store workers vote to join union

The store at 905 W. Eastman St. becomes the outdoors retailer’s fourth with a unionized staff.

Chicago Sun-Times

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Loss and woe.

Reason

Oakland Trader Joe's store becomes first to unionize in California

The campaign to unionize Trader Joe's workers has officially claimed a victory in the company's home state. An Oakland store on Thursday became the first Trader Joe's in California to unionize.

Los Angeles Times

Food prep workers vote to unionize at growing fast-casual chain Portillo’s

Workers at a Portillo’s food preparation facility in the Chicago suburb Addison voted to unionize Thursday in an election held by the National Labor Relations Board.

Chicago Tribune

‘War of attrition’: why union victories for US workers at Amazon have stalled

A year after a ‘historic’ victory in Staten Island, New York, hope for a wave of union victories is looking less momentous

The Guardian - US

Starbucks fires Buffalo worker who founded union campaign

Lexi Rizzo, shift supervisor for seven years at one of the first stores to unionize, says company claims she was fired for tardiness

The Guardian - US

Court Orders Musk To Delete Tweet Threatening Union-Seeking Workers

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's 2018 tweet suggested that Tesla workers could lose stock options if they formed a union.

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Musk must erase threatening tweet in labor fight, court says

Elon Musk is in tweeting purgatory again.

Capital & Main

Howard Schultz Hearing on Starbucks Anti-Union Activity Highlights Corporate Payments to Union-Busting Consultants

U.S. companies spend an estimated $433 million per year on union avoidance consultants, new report finds.

Salon

Schultz accused of lying under oath

At one point in the ex-CEO’s Senate testimony, Bernie Sanders reminded Schultz that it is illegal to lie under oath

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Starbucks hearing is a watershed moment for workers

On Wednesday, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz was questioned by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, dubbed HELP, about the company’s anti-union campaign and violations of federal labor law during his reign.

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Chicago Sun-Times

El Milagro in Chicago threatened workers for speaking out: NLRB

The National Labor Relations Board cited several cases of alleged intimidation and coercion during a campaign of worker activism in 2021 and 2022.

The Independent UK

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz spars with Bernie Sanders over anti-union campaign as workers demand a contract

Bernie Sanders grilled the billionaire chief of the coffee empire, which has still yet to recognise a single union contract after headline-making elections – and a mountain of labour law violations

AFP

Schultz defends Starbucks' tough union stance in testy hearing

New York (AFP) - Longtime Starbucks leader Howard Schultz defended the coffee chain's confrontational approach to unionization Wednesday, while insisting it had not violated US labor law in countering the campaign.

The Independent UK

Howard Schultz draws laughs from workers after taking offence to union busting charge

Starbucks has been found guilty by NLRB judges for threatening pro-union workers, but is appealing

Salon

Howard Schultz takes the hot seat

Starbucks founder’s testimony before U.S. Senate committee will be an accountability moment for coffee chain

The Guardian - US

Bernie Sanders accuses ex-Starbucks chief of unprecedented union-busting

Howard Schultz defends company’s practices before Senate committee, while Republicans condemn Sanders’ ‘witch-hunt’

Capital & Main

Howard Schultz Takes the Hot Seat

Starbucks founder’s testimony before U.S. Senate committee will be an accountability moment for coffee chain on alleged union busting.

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