Category: Leadership

Labor Organizing In 2024: No Safe Harbors

Posted by Kimberly Ricci | May 6, 2024 | Healthcare, Hospitality, IAM, Independents, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Leadership, Manufacturing, Retail, SEIU, Service Industry, Shawn Fain, Starbucks, Strikes, Trader Joe's, Trader Joe's United, Trader Joe's United, Trending, UAW, Union Leaders, Union Leaders, Union Organizing, Unions, USSW, White-Collar

We increasingly see that no industry or business sector remains immune to union activity in 2024 and beyond.

Where In The World Is The UAW’s Shawn Fain? Everywhere!

Posted by Kimberly Ricci | May 2, 2024 | Auto Manufacturing, Bargaining/Negotiations, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Manufacturing, Shawn Fain, UAW, Union Leaders, Union Leaders, Union Organizing, Unionized Company, Unions

If you are growing weary of seeing UAW President Shawn Fain’s face whenever a Big Labor conversation pops up, the bad news is that he’s still going like the Energizer Bunny.

The One Where Questions Get Dodged

Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Apr 29, 2024 | Bargaining/Negotiations, IBT, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Leadership, Logistics, Sean O'Brien, Transportation, Union Leaders, Union Leaders, Unionized Company, Unions

Teamsters President Sean O’Brien recently power walked away from a young union member who is already witnessing broken promises after a year of membership.

Starbucks’ Tall Order Of Negotiating With 400+ Stores: Cunning Or Chaotic?

Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Apr 22, 2024 | Bargaining/Negotiations, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, SBWU, SEIU, Service Industry, Starbucks, Union Leaders, Union Organizing, Unionized Company, Unions

Last December, Starbucks requested to reopen negotiations with Workers United. This move arrived a full two years after the first Starbucks cafe unionized and over a year after contract negotiations stalled out.