Posts tagged wildcat strikes

    Op-ed ● Labor

    Opinion: Can Unions Still Transform the Workplace?

    August 18, 2022 // Starbucks workers across Buffalo created a citywide account on the GroupMe app, which enabled them to track corporate executives as they moved from café to café—and alert one another to be prepared. “What you’re seeing is organizing evolving with the times,” Eisen says. Soon after the successful union vote at her store, Eisen hopped on a Zoom call with workers at a Starbucks café in Mesa, Arizona, to share what she had learned with her counterparts on the other side of the nation. Bill Fletcher Jr, geriatric millennial, Shaun Richman, Jane McAlevey, people of color,

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    Blog Op-ed ● Strike Unionization

    Amazon Union Demands Union Reps in Discipline – Want Bargaining to Begin in May – Strike Threat on the Table

    April 4, 2022 // Union activists gave out free meals and weed to fellow Amazon workers while building community within the Warehouse using the break rooms.

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