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June 6, 2024

Tidbits – June 6 – Reader Comments: Trump No Longer Invincible; Mexico: ¡Viva La Presidenta!; the Sympathizer on Hollywood’s Vietnam War Stories; Leonard Peltier Parole Hearing June 10; Webinar: Organizing, Collective Action, the NLRB; More…

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Reader Comments: Trump No Longer Invincible; Mexico: ¡Viva La Presidenta!; The Sympathizer on Hollywood’s Vietnam War Stories; Leonard Peltier Parole Hearing June 10; Feminist Foreign Policy for Peace; Webinar: Organizing, Collective Action, the NLRB

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April 30, 2024

Lessons From Starbucks Workers United and the Fight for $15

Brian Callaci Dissent Magazine

The National Labor Relations Act still functions, just barely, for Starbucks workers. Employees at fast-food franchises face even worse odds under federal labor law.

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March 5, 2024

Reformed Capitalism in Seattle; Baristas’ Unionism

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect

Microsoft and Starbucks as exceptions to corporations’ union busting; Starbucks baristas as beacons of bottom-up organizing.

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February 6, 2024

Can America’s New Union Hero Take On Elon Musk’s Tesla?

Josh Eidelson and Gabrielle Coppola BloombergBusinessweek

The UAW’s newish president won Detroit auto workers their best deals in decades. Now he’s out to organize Tesla and the rest of the industry’s EV jobs.

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January 2, 2024

Nordic Workers Took On Elon Musk in 2023. Here’s What Could Happen Next

Anna Cooban CNN

For labor unions across the Nordics — a region encompassing Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland — the tussle with Tesla and Elon Musk, a vocal critic of unions, is existential.

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October 31, 2023

U.S. Labor Movement Faces Big Obstacles Despite Surge in Strikes and Union Wins

Michael Sainato The Guardian

Recent union contract gains against a backdrop of decades of union decline, worsening wealth inequality and broken labor laws.

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August 22, 2023

Pro-Union Shift Expected With Labor Board Member’s Pending Exit

Parker Purifoy and Robert Iafolla Bloomberg Law

Pending cases could boost the potency of worker strikes, expand the scope of labor law protections, and make other changes that bolster worker and union power.

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July 11, 2023

Amazon Union Dissidents, in Challenge to Leader, Move To Force Vote

Noam Scheiber The New York Times

A split over the stewardship of the union’s high-profile president, Christian Smalls, has led a rival faction to file a lawsuit seeking an election.

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June 20, 2023

Starbucks Agrees to Settlement for Violating Worker Rights in Seattle

Jordan Zakarin More Perfect Union

This marks the first time Starbucks has settled with the National Labor Relations Board over allegations of violating labor law in connection with the union campaign.

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June 6, 2023

Fired for Unionizing: A Starbucks Worker on How the Coffee Giant Betrayed Its ‘Partners’

Saurav Sarkar The Progresssive Magazine

Alexis Rizzo was one of the first members of Starbucks Workers United; she was recently fired in retaliation, but her fight isn’t over yet.

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