Microsoft and Starbucks as exceptions to corporations’ union busting; Starbucks baristas as beacons of bottom-up organizing
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Starbucks Stops Opposing Its Baristas’ Union
In a historic breakthrough, Starbucks and its workers announce they’ve come together.
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FTC Blocks Kroger-Albertsons Merger on Labor Grounds
The lawsuit alleges that a combined grocery giant would make collective bargaining more difficult.
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The Auto Workers Go All In
By devoting $40 million to its campaign to organize non-union auto plants, the UAW is challenging not just corporate America but also labor’s status quo.
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What (Not Who) Will Follow Mary Kay Henry?
The groundbreaking president of SEIU is stepping down, at a time when the possibilities for organizing American workers may be rising.
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Why the Kroger-Albertsons Merger Will Harm Labor
The companies’ choice of an anti-union third party for its divestitures reveals why labor needs a seat at the table in merger remedies.
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Southern Autoworkers Organize, Business Class Tries to Wallop Them
Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, face a coordinated attack on their organizing, but have learned from two prior losses.
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Election Deniers in the C-Suites
Workers can win union elections, but companies pull out all the stops to prevent them from obtaining a first contract.
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Months After Merging With Activision, Microsoft Lays Off Gaming Employees
The Communications Workers of America supported the merger after securing union neutrality commitments. So far, it has led only to a smaller workforce.
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Why Virginia Costco Workers Organized With the Teamsters
The company has a reputation as a good employer, some of that due to a legacy union membership. Workers had to stand up to prevent backsliding.