Starbucks fires leaders in Memphis union organizing effort

Starbucks ramped up its ongoing anti-union campaign on Tuesday, firing a group of union activists at a Memphis store. The firings happened through the day, hitting seven workers by early …

Biden makes another payment on his pledge to be the most pro-union president ever

President Joe Biden is taking nearly 70 new steps to live up to his pledge to be the most pro-union president in U.S. history. Biden has said he will adopt the recommendations of a task force on …

Starbucks workers keep organizing despite anti-union campaign, this week in the war on workers

Los Angeles. Philadelphia. Tallahassee. Starbucks workers are moving to unionize all across the country following two union victories out of three elections held in Buffalo in late 2021. They’re …

Alabama superintendent says parents want to cancel Black History Month because they think it's CRT

On Wednesday, Alabama state legislators are set to begin discussing the amorphous and still-never-before-taught-below-the-college-level Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the Yellowhammer State’s schools. …

REI launches anti-union campaign as Manhattan workers organize, this week in the war on workers

Last week, workers at a Manhattan REI store filed for a union representation election, seeking what would be the first union at the outdoor equipment retailer. It didn’t take REI management long to …

Following blowback from families and lawmakers, New Jersey to reinstate fund for excluded workers

Following public blowback from the state’s immigrant families and Latino lawmakers, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said on Thursday that he would restore millions of dollars in emergency relief for …

Virginia’s racist Gov. Youngkin sets up email hotline to expose teachers—it’s not going as planned

On Tuesday, pretend not-Trumper Gov. Glenn Youngkin set up a “tip line” for Virginia conservatives to use to drop dimes on educators who dare bring up the whiff of our country’s collective history of …

COVID-19 energized worker-led organizing, but hurdles to collective action remain

by Sydney Pereira

This article was originally published at Prism

Workers’ newfound leverage and organizing momentum only seems to grow month by month. Kellogg’s and John Deere workers went on strike …

Union membership dropped in 2021, this week in the war on workers

Union membership as a percentage of all U.S. workers dropped from 10.8% to 10.3% in 2021, returning to its 2019 level. The bump in 2020 is instructive, since it came because, in the mass job loss of …

COVID-19 protocols are a bad joke at many businesses, this week in the war on workers

At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, essential workers were widely dubbed “heroes.” That didn’t mean they were treated well or protected with adequate safety measures, but people were talking …

Death rates up 40%, setting new 200-year high, life insurance company CEO says

Scott Davison is the CEO of OneAmerica, an Indianapolis-based life insurance company founded in the 19th century. To start the new year, Davison told the audience of an online news conference that “We …

Democratic National Committee staff unionizes, this week in the war on workers

Democratic National Committee staff announced this week that they are unionizing, joining the Service Employees International Union. Former Rep. Donna Edwards counted the union cards as management …

Walmart takes the CDC's gift to employers, cuts paid leave time for workers with COVID-19

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) confusing, widely panned (and widely mocked) shift from 10 days of quarantine after a positive COVID-19 test to five days for asymptomatic cases …

Leaders hope if they pretend omicron isn't happening, schools will magically stay staffed and safe

Teachers are once again under attack—and under pressure to compromise their own safety and that of their students—as they try to cope with the challenges of a resurgent coronavirus pandemic.

After the …

Inside the secretive world of union busting: Here’s how much corporations pay to bust unions

U.S. companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year to ensure workers don’t organize.

By Marcus Baram, for Capital & Main

A handful of workers at the Dollar General In the small …

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Inside the secretive world of union busting: The story of an unlikely alliance

Thirty years ago, a labor organizer helped convince an anti-union consultant to document his methods.

By Marcus Baram, for Capital & Main

They were certainly an odd couple, the unlikeliest of …

Inside the secretive world of union busting: How employers use technology to defeat unions

An estimated 60% of large employers use workplace monitoring tools, some of which can be used to chill organizing.

By Jo Constantz for Capital and Main

Last January, at the height of the pandemic, an …

Deadly tornado shows how companies value their employees, this week in the war on workers

My colleague Gabe Ortiz has been following the story of workers at a Kentucky candle factory who were threatened with firing if they tried to escape a deadly tornado. Those Kentucky workers aren’t …

Kentucky candle factory workers sue company, alleging 'flagrant indifference' to their safety

A number of Kentucky candle factory workers who said supervisors threatened them with firing if they left the site before last week’s deadly tornado have sued the company. 

The lawsuit states that …