Starbucks employee Tim Swicord and Gailyn Berg pose for a portrait outside of a Starbucks in Springfield, Va on April 13, 2022. (Michael A. McCoy for NPR) I haven't addressed.
This is a good sign if it happens. Federal labor regulators accused Starbucks on Wednesday of illegally closing 23 stores to suppress organizing activity and sought to force the company.
In the end, Starbucks has more or less been able to tell the National Labor Relations Board to go fuck itself and there's not much the Board can do about.
National Labor Relations Board, located at 1099 14th Street, NW, in Washington, D.C. April 16, 2012. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL. Harold Meyerson on the exceedingly significant.
This story of a Starbucks union activist fired for her activity is pretty touching just in terms of how hard it is to go through this. But the real takeaway.
Interesting argument here from Benjamin Sachs about the NLRB empowering state experimentation. But there is another, as yet untapped, mechanism for relaxing preemption rules and enabling states to improve upon.
On April 28, 1941, the Supreme Court decided the case of Phelps-Dodge v. National Labor Relations Board. The Court ruled that Phelps-Dodge and other companies who had strikes could not.
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2021/02/20: Participants seen holding signs and marching on a picket line at the protest. Members of the Workers Assembly Against Racism gathered across from.
