Workers United News

Starbucks partners in the Greater Richmond Region submitted petitions to the NLRB seeking union representation by Starbucks Workers United.

The liberal workers the company has long attracted are expanding a union campaign to other cities after a landmark victory in Buffalo.

The victory is the same outcome from the previous NLRB hearing decided in October in which the NLRB ruled that as per decades of established labor law, partners at the Starbucks location could have individual store votes on whether or not to join a union.

Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post wins the January Sidney Award for “The worker revolt comes to a Dollar General in Connecticut,” a deeply reported piece that chronicles a struggle for job security and respect at an outpost of the discount retailer.

After three stores in Buffalo held elections, the process has snowballed, with more than a dozen more stores across the country filing to hold elections.

A sudden swarm of snooping supervisors. An anti-union meeting where the union-buster speaker lies about its purpose—and a worker calls the speaker out on it. Writing up another worker for going to visit his sick mother in the hospital. Welcome to some of the abuses Starbucks has visited upon its 30 workers at its store at 6807 East Baseline Road in Mesa, Ariz., because, as one said, they dare to vote to unionize.