"Starbucks has resumed bargaining with union leaders amid a fresh wave of organized stores after the world’s largest coffee chain agreed to open talks over labor agreements.
Starbucks has consistently denied violating labor laws. But the sheer volume of charges, rulings against them by administrative law judges and the labor board, and accounts from workers themselves detailing their experiences, has bolstered its reputation as an aggressive union buster.
“It was also a lesson that you can’t rely on the law alone,” said Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of Labor Education Research at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. “All the unfair labor practices that were filed … the fact is that Starbucks came to the table because the union did a comprehensive campaign, talked to investors, held red-cup days and did much more than just file unfair labor practices.”"
#Amazon#Canada: we are seeing Amazon roll out its despicable #UnionBusting tactics just like it has around the world. But we know the solution is global worker #solidarity
#REI continues in their #UnionBusting efforts, working swiftly to continue alienating customers and firing low-level managers for essentially no reason. They are doing a great job demonstrating why being a #CoOp doesn't guarantee good #labor policy. I hope they will wake up to the fact that they need to treat their employees better and stop interfering with their attempts to #unionize, and penalizing managers put into a difficult position.
Amazon is up to its old union-busting tricks in its vast BHX4 warehouse in Coventry, England. They are hiring huge numbers of extra staff in an attempt to dilute the GMB union membership below 50%. If union membership at BHX4 grows to more than 50 per cent, Amazon could be forced by the Central Arbitration Committeeto recognise the GMB.
These tactics are throwing the warehouse and working conditions into chaos.
Die #IGMetall hat heute vor dem Arbeitsgericht #Hannover Solidarität mit dem von Kündigung bedrohten Betriebsratsvorsitzenden des Autohauses Nord-Ostsee Automobile, Florian P., gezeigt. Bereits am Vorabend konnte die IG Metall einen Teilerfolg erzielen. Der Arbeitgeber erkannte den Antrag auf einstweilige Verfügung an und zog die unzulässige Freistellung zurück.
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Handelt es sich um Verabredungen zu einer Straftat?
Am Beispiel #Footlocker wird gezeigt, wie Unternehmen auch hierzulande gegen Mitarbeitende vorgehen, die einen Betriebsrat gründen und sich gewerkschaftlich organisieren. Die Journalist:innen sprachen dazu auch mit @arbeitsunrecht und deckten auf, wie diese Unternehmen straflos bleiben, obwohl #unionbusting eine Straftat ist. Erschütternd!
#Starbucks relents after record 21 stores filed for #union authorization elections last week, union-aligned fund put three pro-union directors up for election to Starbucks board
Now that we’re officially in 2024, we thought we’d recap what’s been happening with the union movement in games in 2023 as well as some of what GWU #Montreal has been up to over the last year. 🧵
Near the end of 2022 GWU Montreal held our first public training on identifying and fighting back against union-busting tactics and shared the slides and notes from that training online.
Elon Musk is trying to export #Tesla’s anti-union model to Sweden, and workers across Scandinavia are launching solidarity actions to thwart him. We should be embracing the Nordic countries’ model of strong worker rights, not Tesla’s #Elitists union busting.