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Breaking News: The Starbucks Union Campaign Just Added Hundreds Of Baristas To Its Ranks
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Breaking News: The Starbucks Union Campaign Just Added Hundreds Of Baristas To Its Ranks

Starbucks baristas from 21 stores around the country told the company Tuesday that they plan to organize, potentially adding hundreds of new members to a union campaign that’s battling the coffee chain for first contracts.The union, Workers United, said it is the largest group of Starbucks stores to go public with their organizing plans in a single day since the effort began in Western New York in 2021. The 21 locations are scattered across 14 states from coast to coast.Workers sent a joint letter to the company’s CEO, Laxman Narasimhan, demanding “higher wages, fair and consistent scheduling, improved benefits, and a safe and dignified workplace.”“We have been met with higher and higher expectations without being given the resources to meet them,” they wrote.A Starbucks spokesperson sa...
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Breaking News: Two Major Grocery Chains Allegedly Struck A Backroom Deal To Weaken Workers’ Union

The grocery giants Albertsons and Kroger illegally colluded to weaken workers’ leverage amid strikes and contract negotiations in 2022, according to a lawsuit Colorado’s attorney general filed this week.As workers at 78 Kroger-owned King Soopers stores in Colorado were preparing to walk off the job that January, an Albertsons labor relations executive informed a counterpart at Kroger that his company would not poach strikers during the work stoppage, the lawsuit states.“We don’t intend to hire any King Soupers [sic] employees and we have already advised the Safeway division of our position and the division agrees,” Albertsons’ senior vice president of labor relations wrote in an email quoted in the complaint.The lawsuit also alleges that Albertsons agreed not to solicit King Soopers cus...
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Breaking News: Trader Joe’s Is Suing Its Workers’ Union For An Incredibly Silly Reason

Trader Joe’s isn’t backing down in a trademark battle with its workers’ union.Last month a federal judge threw out all of the company’s claims that the union, Trader Joe’s United, had violated its trademarks with the union’s name and logo. The judge went so far as to say that the company’s attorneys nearly deserved sanctions for even filing the lawsuit.But the scathing order didn’t stop Trader Joe’s from filing an appeal in federal court Thursday in hopes of keeping the lawsuit alive. The company is trying to force the union to stop selling merchandise like tote bags, T-shirts and mugs that have the name Trader Joe’s United on them.Trader Joe’s argues that the items could be creating “confusion” among its consumers and “diluting” the grocer’s brand — claims that the judge overseeing the...
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Latest: Trader Joe’s Could Have 1 Scary Thing In Common With Donald Trump

Trader Joe’s on Wednesday escalated a fight with union members in Kentucky by filing another appeal of their union’s January 2023 election victory.A regional director for the National Labor Relations Board rejected the company’s objections to the vote to unionize and found that the union, Trader Joe’s United, had won fair and square. But Trader Joe’s challenged that determination in its new filing and asked the NLRB’s board in Washington to review it.The California-based grocer, which has been trying to stamp out the union’s organizing campaign for a year and a half, still insists that the union improperly influenced the vote at a Louisville store.The union and its supporters “engaged in pervasive, coercive, and intimidating conduct that precluded the conduct of a free and fair election...
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