LABOR UPDATES

• 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