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…
May 9, 2024
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…
May 8, 2024
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…
December 27, 2023
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…
August 23, 2023
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…
June 14, 2023
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…
June 6, 2023
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…
May 3, 2023
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…
April 19, 2023
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…
March 27, 2023
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…
February 24, 2023
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…
February 23, 2023
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…
February 16, 2023