'This is a union town.' Zohran and Bernie join the Starbucks picket line to demand the coffee giant reach a fair contract with its unionized workforce after years of delay.
Most of the affected employees who held hourly positions will receive $50 for each week worked from July 2021 through July 2024, according to the city.
After years of scorched-earth union-busting and stonewalling tactics by their bosses, Starbucks workers are trying to get their union drive and contract negotiations unstuck through a nationwide strike.
Unions elevate workers from being powerless subjects of a boss to being participants in a democracy, with rights and powers of their own.
The union has been bargaining to reach a contract with Starbucks for over three years, with no end in sight. It says that the new dress code represents “bad faith bargaining,” .
As the White House carries out an anti-worker agenda, labor leaders fear corporate America could also grow more hostile
The “worker-to-worker” organizing model adopted by many of the most dynamic unions and campaigns in the country has enormous promise for revitalizing labor — in large part because it puts workers themselves in the drivers’ seat.
Blanc argues that the current imbalance of power between labor and management in the U.S. can only be changed, for the better, with large-scale, coordinated organizing efforts rooted in the rank-and-file. His most detailed case focuses on Starbucks.
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