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Tag: Union-Busting

Starbucks Tried to Crush Its Baristas. What Happened Next Will Shock You

Starbucks workers have done what many thought was impossible — force one of the largest corporations in the world to negotiate a union contract. It's…

The Shadow Group Working To Keep Wages Low

Alabama autoworkers are on the verge of a major union victory. But there's one group that's funding a massive campaign to stop them. We uncovered…

Who is the most anti-worker presidential candidate? Nikki Haley

Nikki Haley proudly squashed Boeing workers’ union drive, fought to expand right to work, and gave away more than $800 billion in tax cuts to…

Behind The Billionaire-Led Plot To Undermine The Starbucks Union

In August 2021, a few Starbucks workers in Buffalo formed Starbucks Workers United. The union has now organized more than 350 stores and represents over…

Exclusive: Starbucks Agrees to Settlement For Violating Workers Rights in Seattle

Starbucks agreed to a settlement with the NLRB and Starbucks Workers United that will compensate nearly a dozen unionized employees in Seattle who were illegally…

Behind The Dangerous Rise of AI In Mental Health Care

The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) replaced all of their helpline volunteers and workers with a chatbot named Tessa, shortly after their workers unionized. NEDA's…

How Starbucks Just Broke the Law (Again)

Starbucks founder Howard Schultz had a meltdown when questioned by the Senate about union-busting. Then he sought revenge. Multiple workers were fired, including the founder…

Sun Country Airline Workers Vote To Unionize—Management Fought Back

Workers from Sun Country airlines are exposing what union-busting and retaliation looks like in practice. Sun Country Airlines, based out of Minneapolis, MN, is an…

EXCLUSIVE: Starbucks Illegally Withheld Raises & Tips from Union Workers, NLRB Says

Starbucks violated federal labor law when it excluded unionized stores from a new policy that facilitated tipping via credit card, according to a new complaint…

In Midst Of Union Busting, Starbucks Covertly Plans To Give Away $20 Billion To Wealthy Shareholders

Starbucks has quietly resumed its stock buyback program, less than a year after CEO Howard Schultz announced their suspension in a bid to quell the…

Michigan Could Become The First State In Decades To Repeal Right To Work.

[News Clip of Diane Sawyer, NBC]: The showdown raging in the heartland of the United States, perhaps no place in America more closely associated with…

Under a New Labor Rule, Justice is Coming for Starbucks Workers

She was 17, working as a barista, and living in her car. Days before her high school graduation, Starbucks fired Katie for union organizing. Her…