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Commentary: Democracy Is at Risk and on the Ballot in November Employee and Employers Are at Risk
October 27, 2024 // With membership down to a little more than six percent in the private sector, unions have grown desperate. They have run a highly effective PR campaign to reinvent themselves as human rights groups, appealing to the millennials and the plurals which are making up the workforce. As Vincent Vernuccio has recently written in his report, “Unions Need Democracy, “private sector unions are becoming less democratic and representative — even as they claim to represent all workers at unionized worksites. Ninety-five percent of union members in the private sector never had the opportunity to vote to be in the union.”
Unions say Starbucks violates worker rights it claims to uphold — and its membership in U.N. corporate initiative is ‘self-serving’
June 6, 2023 // Trull added that “the complaints and [administrative law judge] rulings against Starbucks involve allegations some of which are disputed by Starbucks, none of which are final, and are not equivalent to findings that violations have occurred under the system of adjudication Congress created.” Elena Bombis, the senior manager of integrity at the U.N. Global Compact and the person to whom the unions’ complaint was addressed, did not immediately return a request for comment. The compact has been known to delist companies that have failed to adhere to the agreement’s principles.