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Union and Queer

The growing solidarity between labor and the LGBTQ+ community

Unionizing is not against the law; but the law is against unionizing.

The company is giving raises, but only to workers who haven’t unionized. That’s likely illegal, but the NLRB has yet to stop it.

by Harold Meyerson May 1, 2023

While employers illegally suppress blue-collar, retail and service workers, professionals and proto-professionals are unionizing in droves.

TAP

Today on TAP: How the company’s refusal to bargain has empowered the ALU’s president but hurt the union

A judge issues an all-too-rare injunction that might just revive the baristas’ organizing.

The action is over selective closures of union stores, as well as retaliatory behavior against unionized employees.

Workers accuse the company of refusing to bargain in good faith for a union contract.

The first open-ended strike in Starbucks Workers United history led to the replacement of the store’s manager.

Denying raises to its unionized baristas appears to be an effective, if illegal, tactic—at least, until the NLRB clamps down on it.