Why Amazon and Starbucks workers are striking now, and what it means for labor under Trump
Striking Amazon and Starbucks workers in California and elsewhere have long pushed for union contracts. The Trump administration is unlikely to be on their side.
Workers love Donald Trump. Unions should fear him
America’s unions have had a banner year. In November 33,000 machinists returned to their stations at Boeing having won a 38% wage increase over four years. Their victory followed a seven-week strike that brought the planemaker to its knees.
Starbucks union strike expands as workers demand pay raises
The union representing Starbucks baristas says it is expanding its strike to stores in 43 states, just as the company's busy holiday stretch begins. Starbucks says the protests closed down about 170 stores.
Rolling Starbucks strike grows to include workers at hundreds of shops
A rolling strike of Starbucks baristas began Friday and grows to include about 300 of the coffee giant's shops across the U.S.
Starbucks workers around the nation go on strike on Christmas Eve
According to Starbucks Workers United, nearly 300 Starbucks stores nationwide were impacted by this strike across 47 states. The post Starbucks workers around the nation go on strike on Christmas Eve appeared first on The Manual.
Starbucks workers at three CT locations strike Tuesday
(WTNH) –Three Connecticut Starbucks locations saw workers striking Tuesday against the company. In a statement sent to News 8, a representative with Starbucks Workers United stated that they are on strike because Starbucks has walked back its commitment to negotiate a union contract by the end of the year by refusing to make a good-faith
Starbucks workers' strike before Christmas is part of a trend of short strikes
Short duration strikes are starting to become the norm. They mean a lot less financial pain for the workers, but they don't have same kind of leverage as an indefinite work stoppage.
Manchin and Sinema Screw Biden Yet Again, Give Trump Control of Labor Board
Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema side with GOP to vote against the renomination of Democrat Lauren McFerran to the National ...
Employers and workers alike are wary of what the second Trump term will mean for labor
After four years of the labor-friendly Biden administration, employers and labor groups alike are wary of what lies ahead in ...
Truthout18d
Unions Brace Themselves as Trump Prepares to Defang Labor Board
Trump’s NLRB will likely be filled with lawyers from the union-busting world hell-bent on rolling back workers’ gains.
Schumer bid to Trump-proof national labor board faces uncertain Senate future
A last-minute attempt by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to keep the federal agency that oversees U.S. labor ...
The Washington Post15d
Manchin, Sinema prevent Democrats from locking in majority on labor board through 2026
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats failed Wednesday to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after independent ... agency for the first two years of President-elect ...
New Republic14dOpinion
Sinema Finally Shows Up to Work to Deal One Last Blow to Labor Rights
Senator Kyrsten Sinema, with the help of her buddy Joe Manchin, took one final chance to help out Republicans and give them ...
JD Supra13d
National Labor Relations Board Expected to Have Republican Majority Shortly After Trump Takes Office
On Wednesday, the Senate did not confirm the re-appointment of current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chairman Lauren McFerran, a ...
US Senate rejects Biden labor board nominee, teeing up Republican control
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected Democratic President Joe Biden's nomination of a U.S. labor board official for a new ...
Wall Street Journal24d
An Anti-Worker Warrior at the NLRB
Donald Trump is vying for Big Labor’s support, but Democrats are ready as usual to outbid Republicans. They’re racing to embed a pro-union enforcer on the National Labor Relations Board ...