Workers United News

Movement Gyms is again facing federal charges before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) as attorneys representing unionized workers today filed a series of new Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges against the company. The new ULPs include a range of allegations of anti-union practices, including charges that the company threatened and interrogated workers in Maryland, made unlawful changes to working conditions and withheld information in New York, and engaged in a nationwide pattern of bad-faith bargaining in ongoing contract negotiations at the company’s unionized gyms.

In the truest form of trade union solidarity, Workers United and the Communications Workers of America (CWA), together with the organizing committee of Fruit Stand Workers United (FSWU) have agreed that CWA will provide support to FSWU’s union organizing efforts at Apple’s Grand Central Station store in New York City.

Workers United, the union supporting Starbucks workers across the country as they organize, is announcing our intention to establish a Strike and Defense Fund with initial dedicated funding of $1 million for the Starbucks Workers United campaign.

Its union-busting tactics have been as aggressive as Amazon’s—but they might end up scalding the coffee giant.

Column: Why Starbucks has become a huge unionization target — and why the company is in a panic

Despite management using tried and tested “union avoidance” tactics, it seems clear that the company’s aggressive campaign is not panning out as Starbucks HQ had hoped.