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July 14, 2022

Tidbits – July 14, 2022 – Reader Comments: Hearings, GOP Witnesses Show Trump Planned Armed Coup; Supreme Court Rules Based on Lies, Religion; Librarians, Books Under Attack; Starbucks Union Grows; Socialism 2022 Conference Labor Day Weekend

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Reader Comments: Hearings and Republican Witnesses Show that Trump Planned Armed Coup; Supreme Court Rules Based on Lies, and Religion; Librarians and Books Under Attack; Starbucks Union Grows; Socialism 2022 Conference Labor Day weekend; more ....

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July 8, 2022

Starbucks Union Push in Atlanta Part of National Organizing Trend

By Michael E. Kanell, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A union voting place sign is taped to the entrance of a Starbucks that reads: NLRB Voting Place Enter Here.

Three Georgia Starbucks stores have voted to unionize, and other efforts are afoot to organize lower-wage workers.

July 7, 2022

The NLRB Is Underfunded and Understaffed—And That’s a Big Threat to the Current Organizing Wave

Gay Semel Labor Notes

The budget for the National Labor Relations Board for fiscal year 2022 was $274 million, which might sound like a lot of money. But it is the same amount as the Board’s budget for Trump-era fiscal years 2021 and 2020, and that is a problem.

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July 5, 2022

A New York Starbucks Abruptly Closed – Was It Retaliation for a Union Drive?

Michael Sainato The Guardian

Workers in Ithaca say closure represents pure opposition from Starbucks, whose CEO says he will "never embrace the union."

July 5, 2022

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – July 5, 2022

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School officials try to whitewash slavery and the Japanese-American internment

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June 26, 2022

Starbucks Is Breaking Ground as One of the Worst Union Busters in Recent Memory

John Logan Jacobin

Starbucks and its union-busting law firm are pulling out all the stops in Seattle in an attempt to destroy the union push that has swept the country.

June 20, 2022

Why a Rhodes Scholar’s Ambition Led Her to a Job at Starbucks

Noam Scheiber The New York Times

Jaz Brisack became a union organizer and barista for the same reasons that talented young people have long chosen their career paths: a mix of idealism and ambition.

June 21, 2022

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – June 21, 2022

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A choice for organized baristas - if you can't get a union, buy the coffee shop

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June 4, 2022

Austin Starbucks Employees Become First To Successfully Unionize in Texas

Drew Knight KVUE

Former Austin City Council Member Greg Casar called the Austin Starbucks workers union victory "inspiring."

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May 29, 2022

Deep South Baristas Strike Starbucks

Kerry Taylor Labor Notes

Starbucks baristas in Columbia, South Carolina, returned to their jobs on Saturday, May 21, following a three-day walkout to protest anti-union retaliation.

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