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Posted by Michael VanDervort | Oct 9, 2025 | Federal, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Leadership, Legal, News, NLRB, Sean O'Brien, Trending, Union Leaders, Union Leaders
Recent headlines paint a rosy picture of rising union victories at companies like Amazon, Starbucks, and Volkswagen. However, a recent Senate HELP Committee hearing presented a more sobering reality: for many workers, winning a union vote is only the beginning of a much longer, more complex battle, one that unfolds between corporate boardrooms, government agencies, and legislative gridlock.
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Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Sep 24, 2025 | Bargaining/Negotiations, IBT, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Leadership, Legal, Logistics, News, Sean O'Brien, Strikes, Transportation, Trending, Union Leaders, Union Leaders, Unionized Company, Unions
The Teamsters recently marked the one-year anniversary of the Bigfoot Beverages strike by–weird flex, but okay–throwing a barbecue near the locally-owned, family-founded drinks distributor’s Oregon headquarters.
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Posted by Michael VanDervort | Sep 22, 2025 | Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Leadership, Lynne Fox, News, Service Industry, Starbucks, Strikes, Trending, Uncategorized, Union Leaders, Union Leaders, Unions, Workers United
Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) has organized about 650 stores out of nearly 9,000 corporate-owned stores. That’s a lot of stores to be organized at any one employer, but not enough density to shut down the enterprise with a strike.
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Posted by Michael VanDervort | Sep 2, 2025 | Corruption, Education, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Leadership, Legal, News, Politics, Trending, Union Leaders, Union Leaders, Union Research
As we emerge from a long Labor Day holiday weekend, during which the press spent considerable time lauding the current trendiness and popularity of labor unions, they devoted little time to discussing the downside of labor unions.
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Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Aug 29, 2025 | AI Coach's Corner, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Healthcare, Healthcare, Hospitality, IBT, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Leadership, Leadership, Sean O'Brien, SEIU, Uncategorized, Union Leaders, Union Organizing, Unions
The Friday Five: Big Labor On The Field, AI In The Ring, And More. It’s Friday, and we have five labor-related stories that you might not have heard yet.
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