Tag Archives: Unions
Cleveland REI Workers Form Union, Adding Fuel To Labor Effort – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Workers at an REI store near Cleveland voted 27-12 in favor of unionizing on Friday, adding more fuel to a labor organizing campaign at the national outdoor retailer. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union said it prevailed in the vote following a tally by the National Labor Relations Board. The company has a…
Medieval Times Union Says Company Brought In Scab Knights From Canada – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] A pair of Medieval Times knights from the company’s Toronto castle were headed to Southern California earlier this week when their inter-kingdom travel apparently hit a snag. The two knights and a third Medieval Times worker were turned away by the Department of Homeland Security because they lacked visas to work in the U.S.,…
Strikes Increased In 2022 As Workers Wielded Their Leverage – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Workers went on strike in growing numbers last year as they took advantage of a tight labor market and pressed employers for better pay and working conditions, two new sets of data suggest. Figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released Wednesday show nearly 121,000 workers took part in 23 large strikes that…
Starbucks Union Leaders Were Illegally Fired, Labor Board Rules – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Starbucks broke the law by firing two union leaders, making illegal threats and surveilling baristas who agitated for better working conditions in Philadelphia, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Monday. The three-member panel’s decision affirms a judge’s findings in 2021 that the coffee chain violated employees’ rights repeatedly in late 2019 and early 2020,…
Trader Joe’s Posts ‘Anti-Union Propaganda’ In Kentucky Store – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Workers at a Trader Joe’s store in Louisville will vote this week to determine whether they become the chain’s third store to form a union in less than a year. Trader Joe’s has told employees there it welcomes a fair election, but the company doesn’t sound thrilled with the prospect of another organized store….
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…
Amazon Labor Union’s Victory At JFK8 Warehouse Now Official – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] The upstart Amazon Labor Union made history when it won a union election at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island last spring, the first labor group in the U.S. to do so. But its groundbreaking victory was only just made official this week, more than nine months after the ballots were counted and the…
Medieval Times Union Wins Vote At California Castle – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] The union campaign at Medieval Times has breached the walls of a second castle. Workers at the company’s Buena Park, California, location voted 27 to 18 in favor of joining the American Guild of Variety Artists on Thursday, according to a union spokesperson. The union will represent the knights, squires, stablehands and cast who…
Home Depot Union Supporters Say They’re Overworked And Understaffed – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Felix Allen never understood why tracking down an employee who could help him find what he needed at Lowe’s was so hard. Allen works a merchandiser building product displays for the big-box home improvement chain. Or at least that’s what he’s supposed to be doing. He said the staff is stretched so thin that…
Home Depot Workers Reject Union Effort In Philadelphia – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Workers at a Home Depot in Philadelphia voted decisively against unionizing in an election held this week, turning back an effort to form the home-improvement chain’s first organized store. A ballot count held Saturday by the National Labor Relations Board showed the upstart union, Home Depot Workers United, lost 165 to 51. The board…
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Cleveland REI Workers Form Union, Adding Fuel To Labor Effort – Heemang Parmar