What a lovely company, oh sorry I mean "co-op." When William Littig showed up for work at his REI store on Feb. 21, it didn’t take long for him to realize it would be his last day. Two managers who were visiting from other stores...
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Don't Be Evil, indeed: Dozens of workers employed by a contracting company to do work for Google had their assignment abruptly ended last week, in a move they believe was.
On January 19, 1915, armed thugs hired by the Williams & Clark fertilizer plant in Roosevelt, New Jersey (now known as Carteret) killed two striking workers. The Roosevelt Massacre is.
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 to reopen them. A complaint issued by a regional office of the National Labor Relations...
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.
Workers at Grindr are organizing and of course the bosses might say they are super progressive because of the industry, but when it comes to unions, they might as well.
Universities have always been centers of union-busting. In the early 20th century, when a company looked for strikebreakers or militia to commit violence against workers, the university was a great place to find it. What was more fun for a fraternity than beating up workers?...
There is no circle of Hell harsh enough for these assholes: A California restaurant had an individual impersonate a priest to encourage employees to confess their “sins” against their employer,.
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.
Starbucks' complete indifference to following American labor law is pretty telling. In a complaint issued on 25 April, NLRB prosecutors alleged that Starbucks illegally refused and failed to bargain at 144 unionized stores. The board also requested a court injunction for immediate reinstatement of a...
Good piece from Sharon Block on her testimony before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that rebutted Howard Schultz's lies and bullshit about his unionbusting at Starbucks. Mr..
As Stephen Greenhouse argues in The Guardian, the iconic companies of the new economy are kicking it real old school when it comes to unionbusting. US corporations have mounted a.