Starbucks is really pushing the bounds of legality, one assumes believing the right-wing courts will back them up, in its union busting campaigns. Starbucks introduced new financial-focused employee b
One of the good things about Labor Day is that publications will actually publish labor stories. Here’s a few of them. First, I am curious about this Hulu series The Bear, which seems to be a pr
I await the Opus Dei court deciding that this is indeed kidnapping. NEW: Starbucks is taking its union-busting to an unprecedented level. A South Carolina store manager is pressing kidnapping & as
One of the points I’ve made repeatedly about the recent wave of organizing is that it engaging in performatively liberal companies who use those politics to attract both liberal workers and libe
A good deep dive into Starbucks’ unionbusting tactics: Then there were the write-ups. In mid-February, Slopsema, a barista at the Barn, was given a final warning – the last step before being f
A classic move in the anti-union playbook is to offer your non-union workers something that you don’t offer your unionized workers, making the bogus lie that a union would stop the company from
I was happy to provide some quotes for this Marketwatch article about the unionization push as Amazon, Starbucks, and other iconic companies of the new economy. Mostly, they were thinking about these
The hilarious thing about these union busting efforts is that people are obviously going to leak them. No one is particularly scared of Starbucks corporate at this point. So check out this thread if y