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The REI Union Effort Spreads To Another City – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] REI workers in Northeast Ohio are aiming to make their store the third to unionize in less than a year, according to the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). The labor group said in a statement Wednesday that a “majority” of employees at the REI store in the Cleveland suburb of Orange Village…
Blank Street Coffee Workers Hope To Unionize – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] The upstart chain Blank Street Coffee has expanded with startling speed since opening its first location in Brooklyn in 2020. In less than three years, the venture capital-backed company has unveiled roughly 60 stores serving automated espressos, most in New York City with additional locations in London, Boston and Washington, D.C. Last August The…
House Democrats Blast Starbucks For ‘Union-Busting, Intimidation And Retaliation’ – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] A group of House Democrats sent a scathing letter to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on Friday, accusing the coffee chain of wielding its workplace benefits as a cudgel against unionizing baristas. “We are closely monitoring Starbucks’ broad strategy of union-busting, intimidation, and retaliation against employees,” they wrote in the letter, which is posted below….
Labor Unions See Their Highest Approval Rating In Nearly Six Decades – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Americans have taken an increasingly positive view of labor unions over the past decade, with 71% now saying they approve of them in a new Gallup poll. That’s the highest favorability rating Gallup has seen for organized labor since 1965. The affirmative view of unions comes amid a burst of workplace organizing at previously…