Starbucks workers in Overland Park, KS are ON STRIKE and are joined on the picket line by fast food workers
Labor Board Finds Starbucks Illegally Retaliated Against Union Organizers
Pyramid Foods in Rogersville, MO has begun to organize with the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 178.
In February 2022, unions won 75% of all RC petitions filed.
ATHENS, GA – A federal investigation has found two Zaxby’s franchise
restaurants in Lilburn and Grayson endangered minor-aged employees and allowed them to work outside of prescribed hours, in violation of federal child labor laws. Now they are organizing with the IWW
Workers in Guitar Center in Seattle WA are organizing.
Breaking: Starbucks baristas go on a ULP strike in Overland Park, KS. The workers at the store on 75th and I-35 are “…taking a stand against the company’s labor law violations…”
The organizing of Wendy’s and the attacks from unions continue… “Billionaire chairman Nelson Peltz refuses to join the Fair Food Program, a benchmark labor& human rights program, leaving its tomato farmers vulnerable to abuse & forced labor….”
Unions are striving to organize truckers across America and Canada –
“Truckers in the United States and Canada face constant surveillance,
diminishing wages, and endemic—potentially fatal—exhaustion and fatigue….”
Over 1,000 Alabama Mineworkers have been on strike for many months,
and”… mine bosses at Warrior Met have repeatedly used their connections with local courts & state police to try to break the strike. As one striking worker tells stated , they’ve got the best judges money can buy….”
Walkout of workers of Amazon DSP occurred in MD this week, over 60 drivers walked out
Nursing homes across the USA have now been added to the target list.
Corporate campaigns continue against Sysco, Republic, WM, HCA, Ryder and more. Our research team has found many more.
Next webinar will be announced shortly where we review the IWW and DSA organizing tactics
Striking Seattle cement workers rallied outside the Japanese consulate
yesterday. The teamsters are going up against the company CalPortland,
owned by Japanese Taiheiyo. “Cement workers have been on strike for over 3 months to demand a fair contract.”
UC San Diego spiked rents up to 85% on graduate students who “…get paid
poverty wages and can’t afford to live…. At the same time, UC chancellors
each received $100K+ raises. The system is crushing grad students. Now
~50,000 of them, organized with UAW, are fighting back.”
“Truly shocking how utterly Chobani and Fair Trade Dairy are failing
farmworkers in their phony “Fair Trade Dairy” label.” Workers are being forced to sign “loyalty agreements not to denounce abuses as a condition for receiving gift cards.”
A group of MIT faculty have written an open letter calling on colleagues to avoid attempting to persuade graduate students how to vote in the upcoming union election, or even giving the appearance of coercion.
ATHENS, GA – A federal investigation has found two Zaxby’s franchise
restaurants in Lilburn and Grayson endangered minor-aged employees and allowed them to work outside of prescribed hours, in violation of federal child labor laws. Now they are organizing with the IWW
The recently established union at the cooperative Sri Lankan eatery, Mirisata — which represents all employees who are not member-owners — is now a formal affiliate of the IWW’s branch in Portland, Oregon.
Wesleyan University in CT agrees to voluntary recognition
NEW: 119 post production entertainment workers at Netflix, Paramount,
Disney, Warner, and NBC are seeking to unionize with the CWA
3) 350 hospital workers including interns, residents, and fellows at the
University of Vermont Medical Center are seeking to unionize with the SEIU
Over 1,000 Alabama Mineworkers have been on strike for many months,
and”… mine bosses at Warrior Met have repeatedly used their connections with local courts & state police to try to break the strike. As one striking worker tells stated , they’ve got the best judges money can buy….”
NEW: Farmworkers are calling for a national boycott on Wendy’s. “Wendy’s billionaire chairman Nelson Peltz refuses to join the Fair Food Program, a benchmark labor & human rights program. Instead, the fast food giant leaves its tomato farmers vulnerable to abuse & forced labor.”
Charlotte Observer voluntarily recognizes The Charlotte Observer News Guild as a union and “…is ready to work for the needs of our journalists…”
In January 2022, Unions filed 80 RC petitions and won 78% of them. This does not account for the voluntary recognitions that are taking place.
Starbucks Workers United now over 110 petitions across the USA and most recently in Oxford MS
Center for Urban Community Services in NYC gives voluntary recognition of their union with DC 37
Elon Musk at Tesla announces “Our real challenge is Bay Area has negative unemployment, so if we don’t treat and compensate our (awesome) people well, they have many other offers and will just leave! I’d like hereby to invite UAW to hold a union vote at their convenience. Tesla will do nothing to stop them.” Looks like Tesla will not fight union activity.
