Labor Organizing In 2024: No Safe Harbors
We increasingly see that no industry or business sector remains immune to union activity in 2024 and beyond.
Read MorePosted 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.
Read MorePosted 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.
Read MorePosted by Kimberly Ricci | Apr 2, 2024 | Federal, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Legal, Retail, SEIU, Service Industry, Starbucks, Trader Joe's, Union Organizing, Unions, USSW
As our own Phil Wilson has discussed at length, several recent campaigns have seen union activists, who act as paid covert internal organizers, often referred to as “salts.”
Read MorePosted by Kimberly Ricci | Feb 22, 2024 | Courts, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Legal, NLRB, SCOTUS, SCOTUS, Starbucks, Trader Joe's
So far, 2024 appears to be the year that employers are pushing back against what they believe is essentially unchecked power of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Read MorePosted by Kimberly Ricci | Feb 1, 2024 | Approachable Leadership, Bargaining/Negotiations, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Leadership, Legal, NLRB, Positive Workplace, Retail, SEIU, Service Industry, Starbucks, Strikes, Union Organizing, Unionized Company, Unions
Starbucks’ drink menu can be tweaked into an infinite variety of different drink possibilities. In the same way, there is no shortage of benefits from listening to workers’ concerns before they blend into a labor disaster.
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