Once battling over a law that facilitates farm worker unionization, they’re...
The 1975 California Agricultural Labor Relations Act gave unions the ability to enter farms in the state—including ones that don’t want them there—to campaign among farm workers for a limited time...
View ArticleAs states expand rights for farm workers, the Supreme Court rules against...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that union organizers can no longer enter farms to speak to workers during non-working hours for a set number of days each year, upending a nearly 50-year-old...
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Restaurant workers across North Carolina say there’s no labor shortage. It’s...
The state is facing an employee-led reckoning in the restaurant industry—and workers say they’re at a breaking point. From fast food chains to mid-level eateries to high-end bistros, restaurants are...
View ArticleThe pandemic and calls for equity have encouraged many workers at small...
Organizing a union in the food service industry has long been considered an uphill battle. Staff turnover is high; relationships between the unequally compensated front- and back-of-house can be...
View ArticleStarbucks workers in Buffalo, New York are aiming to unionize
Employees at three Starbucks locations in Buffalo, N.Y., have filed petitions for a union vote, The New York Times reports. For years, the coffee behemoth has billed itself as a progressive and...
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A multiracial, multigenerational labor movement led by fast-food workers has...
Since 1947, North Carolina has been a right-to-work state, making it illegal to require union membership as a condition of hiring, and prohibiting collection of union dues from workers’ wages. These...
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Food service has been a notoriously difficult industry to unionize. Coffee...
When employees at three Starbucks locations in Buffalo, New York, announced their intent to unionize this August, followed shortly after by two additional stores nearby, they had reasons for optimism,...
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Starbucks workers vote to unionize in Buffalo
Despite months of aggressive corporate opposition, employees overwhelmingly voted in favor of union representation at one store. Workers at a second store appeared to decide against unionizing, while...
View ArticleInspired by success in Buffalo, Starbucks union drive expands rapidly
Four more stores have filed union papers in the last week alone, and one more store in Buffalo has now unionized. Workers at four Starbucks stores across the country filed petitions for union...
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A just transition for farmworkers
As agricultural laborers continue to bear the brunt of climate change, activists in Washington chart a new path for climate justice. Pictured above: Megaphones at Tierra y Libertad, a 65-acre farm...
View ArticleArizona Starbucks store votes to unionize, as organizing drive gains momentum...
The Mesa Starbucks store is the third company-owned location to vote in favor of unionization since December. Pictured above: Workers gather in protest outside of Starbucks’s Seattle headquarters on...
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