None of the upstart unions has won a contract yet, Dan DiMaggio and Angela Bunay report. But there is a new sense of possibility among workers at some of the country’s biggest nonunion employers.
Starbucks, Amazon & More Organizing in US
Category: Labor
Taxing the Rich to Boost Social Security
Instead of growing financial security, Sam Pizzigati says the current retirement system in the U.S. is growing greater overall economic inequality.
US Taxpayers Spent Billions Inflating CEO Pay
Sarah Anderson says Biden has the power to crack down on executive excess by imposing new CEO pay and buyback restrictions on federal contractors.
Chris Hedges: How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
Many of these tactics have been pioneered or refined by Socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative party in Seattle.
Lessons for US from Chile’s Starbucks Union Leader
Starbucks in Chile has been fined the most for anti-union practices devised in Seattle headquarters, where a tough campaign against U.S. employees has been brewed, writes Andrés Giordano.
Disney Not in This Much Trouble Since 1941
Many of the activist cartoonists later fell victim to Hollywood’s notorious blacklist era, writes Thomas Doherty.
Starbucks CEO: Wage Hikes for Non-Union Workers
Discussing benefits and wage hikes that would not automatically apply to organized workers is a common union-busting tactic, Jake Johnson reports.
US National Labor Board’s Budget Squeeze
More funding – not just in fiscal year 2023, but right now – is needed to defend the right to organize and enforce labor law against increasingly hostile employers, writes C.M. Lewis.
Starbucks’ Anti-Union Playbook: the ‘One-on-One’
During the fight to form a union, a Starbucks shift manager reveals what happened at one store in central New Jersey when baristas were pulled in for individual meetings to “review benefits.”
Labor & Oligarchy: Two Tales from Buffalo, NY
In the same city that produced the first Starbucks union, Sam Pizzigati flags the single largest taxpayer subsidy in the plutocratic history of American professional sports.