Union wins right to represent workers at an Apple store for first time
2 years, 6 months ago

Union wins right to represent workers at an Apple store for first time

CNN  

New York CNN Business — Apple workers in Towson, Maryland, have voted to form the first-ever labor union at one of the tech giant’s US stores. “We are pleased to offer very strong compensation and benefits for full time and part time employees, including health care, tuition reimbursement, new parental leave, paid family leave, annual stock grants and many other benefits.” The union that won the vote is called the Apple Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, or AppleCORE for short. “I applaud the courage displayed by CORE members at the Apple store in Towson for achieving this historic victory,” said IAM International President Robert Martinez. “They made a huge sacrifice for thousands of Apple employees across the nation who had all eyes on this election.” The Apple store vote follows an April union victory at an Amazon distribution center in Staten Island, New York, the first Amazon facility to vote in favor a union.

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Apple Store employees in Maryland vote to authorize a first strike over working conditions
7 months, 1 week ago

Apple Store employees in Maryland vote to authorize a first strike over working conditions

Associated Press  

— Workers at the first Apple Store to unionize have now also authorized a first strike against the tech giant’s retail operations. Apple Store workers in Towson, Maryland, voted late Saturday to authorize a strike, according to a statement from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, which represents the workers. The vote followed …

21 Starbucks Stores Plan To Form Unions In 1-Day Blitz
10 months ago

21 Starbucks Stores Plan To Form Unions In 1-Day Blitz

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Starbucks baristas from 21 stores around the country told the company Tuesday that they plan to organize, potentially adding hundreds of new members to a union campaign that’s battling the coffee chain for first contracts. The union, Workers United, said it is the largest group of Starbucks stores to go public with their organizing plans in a …

Starbucks labor report — demanded by shareholders — calls for better training on union issues
1 year ago

Starbucks labor report — demanded by shareholders — calls for better training on union issues

Associated Press  

Starbucks should better communicate its commitment to workers’ collective bargaining rights and train its employees to respect those rights, according to an independent assessment released Wednesday. Since 2021, at least 370 of Starbucks’ 9,600 company-owned U.S. stores have voted to unionize with Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. Mackall also said Starbucks’ Global Human Rights Statement …

Labor's labors lost? A year after stunning victory at Amazon, unions are stalled
1 year, 8 months ago

Labor's labors lost? A year after stunning victory at Amazon, unions are stalled

NPR  

A year after stunning victory at Amazon, unions are stalled Enlarge this image toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images Spencer Platt/Getty Images It was the Champagne pop heard across the economy. One year ago Saturday, a fired Amazon warehouse worker turned labor activist sprayed Champagne and then drank from the bottle outside federal labor offices in New York City. Following a …

New Starbucks CEO plans to work in stores monthly
1 year, 9 months ago

New Starbucks CEO plans to work in stores monthly

Associated Press  

Starbucks’ new CEO Laxman Narasimhan says he plans to work a half-day shift once a month in one of the company’s stores in an effort to stay close to its culture and customers. Narasimhan, who took the reins as CEO earlier this week, said in a letter to Starbucks’ employees Thursday that he also expects the company’s leadership team to …

Apple to assess its labour practices
1 year, 11 months ago

Apple to assess its labour practices

The Hindu  

Apple will audit its U.S. labor practices under an agreement with a coalition of investors, a report said. The audit will look into whether Apple is complying with its official human rights policy as it relates to “workers’ freedom of association and collective bargaining rights in the United States,” according to a report by New York Times, citing a company …

Amazon workers reject union bid in upstate New York
2 years, 2 months ago

Amazon workers reject union bid in upstate New York

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Amazon workers in upstate New York overwhelmingly rejected a union bid on Tuesday, handing a second defeat to the labor group that’s been attempting to drag the company to the negotiating table since its historic win earlier this year. Warehouse workers near Albany cast 406 votes out of the 612 ballots counted — or about 66% — …

Amazon workers reject union bid in upstate New York
2 years, 2 months ago

Amazon workers reject union bid in upstate New York

Al Jazeera  

The loss has dashed, for now, the labour group’s hopes to get Amazon to the negotiating table on contracts. Amazon workers in upstate New York have overwhelmingly rejected a union bid, handing a second defeat to the labour group that’s been trying to drag the company to the negotiating table. This time around, 406, or two-thirds of workers at a …

Amazon workers vote against unionizing at upstate NY warehouse
2 years, 2 months ago

Amazon workers vote against unionizing at upstate NY warehouse

NPR  

Amazon workers vote against unionizing at upstate NY warehouse Enlarge this image toggle caption Lucas Willard/WAMC Lucas Willard/WAMC Amazon warehouse workers near Albany, N.Y., have voted no to a union, delivering a blow to the fledgling effort to organize employees at one of the country's largest employers. More than 900 Amazon employees were eligible to vote on whether to join …

Apple workers vote to unionise second Apple Store in US
2 years, 2 months ago

Apple workers vote to unionise second Apple Store in US

The Hindu  

Apple workers have voted in favour of unionising a second Apple Store in the United States. The Penn Square in Oklahoma City is the second Apple Store in the US to unionise after Apple retail workers in Maryland became the first union-represented Apple store in the U.S. The US National Labor Relations Board, on Friday, counted the ballots submitted by …

Amazon faces off with union in fight for a second warehouse
2 years, 2 months ago

Amazon faces off with union in fight for a second warehouse

Al Jazeera  

The startup union that clinched a historic labour victory at Amazon earlier this year is slated to face the company yet again, aiming to rack up more wins that could force the reluctant retail behemoth to the negotiating table. “I can’t jinx it.” The face-off near the state’s capitol — one of the most unionised metro areas in the country, …

Apple workers in Oklahoma vote to unionize in 2nd labor win
2 years, 2 months ago

Apple workers in Oklahoma vote to unionize in 2nd labor win

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Workers at an Apple store in Oklahoma City voted to unionize, marking the second unionized Apple store in the U.S. in a matter of months, according to the federal labor board. Fifty-six workers at the store, located at Oklahoma City’s Penn Square Mall, voted to be represented by The Communications Workers of America, while 32 voted against …

Amazon bid to scrap historic union win blocked
2 years, 3 months ago

Amazon bid to scrap historic union win blocked

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A hearing officer for a federal labor board has rebuffed Amazon’s attempt to scrap a historic union win at a warehouse on Staten Island, New York, handing victory to organizers in what could be a very long battle for recognition. Thursday’s win is a relief for the Amazon Labor Union, the grassroots group of former and current …

Apple’s 3-day Work from Office policy upsets section of ‘employees’: Report
2 years, 4 months ago

Apple’s 3-day Work from Office policy upsets section of ‘employees’: Report

Hindustan Times  

The decision of Apple Inc. to call its employees to office at least three days a week has triggered protests where some sections of Apple employees have started a petition in demand of a more flexible working environment, The Wall Street Journal reported. They have launched the petition, being vexed by Apple's decision of mandating a general return to office …

The Fallout From Apple’s Bizarre, Dogged Union-Busting Campaign
2 years, 4 months ago

The Fallout From Apple’s Bizarre, Dogged Union-Busting Campaign

Wired  

Apple workers in Towson, Maryland, made history last month when they became the first US retail store to vote to unionize, joining the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. A week and a half later, workers launched a petition on Change.org calling Apple’s union-busting campaign “nothing short of traumatic for many of us.” The petitioners called on the company …

Biden says he is ‘proud’ of Apple retail workers who unionized
2 years, 6 months ago

Biden says he is ‘proud’ of Apple retail workers who unionized

CNN  

CNN Business — President Joe Biden said he was “proud” of Apple’s retail workers in Towson, Maryland, who voted this weekendto form the first-ever labor union at one of the tech giant’s US stores. Apple store employees at the Towson Town Center, a mall near Baltimore, voted by a nearly two-to-one margin to form a union, according to Saturday’s tally …

Maryland Apple workers face hurdles after vote to unionize
2 years, 6 months ago

Maryland Apple workers face hurdles after vote to unionize

Associated Press  

— The historic vote by employees of a Maryland Apple store to unionize — a first for the technology giant — is a significant step in a lengthy process that labor experts say is heavily stacked against workers in favor of their employers. The Apple retail workers in Towson, Maryland, voted 65-33 to seek entry into the International Association of …

Maryland Apple store union vote marks latest in labor drives
2 years, 6 months ago

Maryland Apple store union vote marks latest in labor drives

Associated Press  

Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin on Saturday. At least 150 of Starbucks’ 9,000 company-run U.S. stores have voted to unionize since then, according to the National Labor Relations Board, and at least 10 stores have rejected the union. AMAZON Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, voted to unionize in …

Apple workers vote to unionize at Maryland store
2 years, 6 months ago

Apple workers vote to unionize at Maryland store

Associated Press  

— Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Saturday, a union said, joining a growing push across U.S. retail, service and tech industries to organize for greater workplace protections. The Apple retail workers in Towson, Maryland, voted 65-33 to seek entry into the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the union’s …

Apple Inc workers in Maryland, US vote to join a union
2 years, 6 months ago

Apple Inc workers in Maryland, US vote to join a union

Al Jazeera  

Workers in Maryland become the first retail employees of Apple Inc to unionize in the US. Apple Inc workers in the city of Maryland in the United States have voted to join a union, becoming the first retail employees of the tech giant to unionize in the country. The local workers, forming the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, “have the …

America’s workers gained power during Covid. A volatile economy will put that to the test
2 years, 6 months ago

America’s workers gained power during Covid. A volatile economy will put that to the test

CNN  

San Francisco CNN Business — The pandemic shone a spotlight on the vast disparities in benefits and rights among America’s workforce and helped fuel a movement to unionize more workers. Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times/AP In April, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island were the first to vote to successfully unionize in the company’s history; what began as …

Workers protest Starbucks’ plan to close a unionized store
2 years, 6 months ago

Workers protest Starbucks’ plan to close a unionized store

Associated Press  

As tensions rise between Starbucks and baristas who want to unionize, the imminent closure of a store in Ithaca, New York, is taking on outsized significance. At least 280 Starbucks stores have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to hold union votes since late last year, and at least 122 stores have voted to unionize. But this week, Workers United …

California is now home to two unionized Starbucks stores
2 years, 7 months ago

California is now home to two unionized Starbucks stores

LA Times  

Workers at two Starbucks stores in Santa Cruz voted overwhelmingly to join a union, becoming the first locations of the coffee giant in California to unionize. Workers at two Starbucks stores in Santa Cruz have unionized, becoming the first stores in California to join the ballooning ranks of the coffee giant’s organized baristas and shift supervisors. Workers at both Santa …

Maryland Apple store employees launch union drive
2 years, 7 months ago

Maryland Apple store employees launch union drive

The Hindu  

A group of employees at an Apple Inc store in Maryland started a drive to form a union on Tuesday, the Washington Post reported. Organisers at the Towson Mall store near Baltimore said they had signatures from more than 65% of employees who are likely to be eligible, according to the report. Workers at an Apple store in Atlanta in …

Employees at another Apple store are unionizing, this time in Maryland
2 years, 7 months ago

Employees at another Apple store are unionizing, this time in Maryland

NPR  

Employees at another Apple store are unionizing, this time in Maryland Enlarge this image toggle caption Ng Han Guan/AP Ng Han Guan/AP Employees at an Apple store in suburban Maryland have begun unionizing, organizers announced Tuesday. They sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook saying the majority of employees at the store support forming a union. We are pleased …

Apple employees demand more flexibility in return-to-work plan
2 years, 7 months ago

Apple employees demand more flexibility in return-to-work plan

CNN  

CNN Business — Some Apple employees are pushing back on the tech giant’s return to office pilot program, which will soon require most of its corporate workers to be in the office at least three days per week. “How can we understand what problems of remote work need solving in our products, if we don’t live it?” reads an open …

Amazon union could face a tough road ahead after victory
2 years, 8 months ago

Amazon union could face a tough road ahead after victory

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — In the aftermath of their hard-won labor victory, Amazon workers in the New York City borough of Staten Island popped Champagne, cheered their victory and danced in celebration. Among other things, the nascent Amazon Labor Union, or ALU, has said it wants longer breaks for warehouse employees, more time off and a dramatically higher minimum hourly wage …

Column: Why Starbucks has become a huge unionization target — and why the company is in a panic
2 years, 8 months ago

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

LA Times  

On April 7, Madison Hall, a barista and union organizer at the Starbucks store on Long Beach’s bustling 2nd Street commercial strip, was invited to a session the next day to “meet with and co-create with upper-level management,” Hall says. “Because Starbucks is a front-facing company considered ‘essential,’” Workers United organizing chief Richard Minter says, “the pandemic exacerbated the employer-employee …

Workers at Atlanta Apple store file to hold first U.S. union election
2 years, 8 months ago

Workers at Atlanta Apple store file to hold first U.S. union election

The Hindu  

Workers at an Apple Inc store in Atlanta on Wednesday filed a petition to hold a union election, seeking to become the company’s first U.S. store to unionise amid a wave of labor activity at other major firms. The effort at the Apple store in Cumberland Mall is backed by the Communications Workers of America, according to a news release …

Apple Store employees in Atlanta file for union election
2 years, 8 months ago

Apple Store employees in Atlanta file for union election

CNN  

CNN Business — Workers at an Apple Store in Atlanta filed for a union election on Wednesday in a bid to become the first group of retail employees at the tech giant to unionize. Over 70% of the 100-plus eligible workers at the store in Atlanta’s Cumberland Mall have signed union authorization cards, according to the labor union Communications Workers …

Employees at a New York Apple store are trying to unionize
2 years, 8 months ago

Employees at a New York Apple store are trying to unionize

CNN  

New York CNN Business — Some employees at the Apple store at New York’s Grand Central Terminal are seeking to form a union, the latest high-profile labor organizing effort to take root in the pandemic era. A person familiar with the matter told CNN Business that workers at the Grand Central Apple store have begun collecting signatures to file a …

Starbucks unionization effort explodes as 200 stores seek elections despite company's scorched-earth strategy
2 years, 8 months ago

Starbucks unionization effort explodes as 200 stores seek elections despite company's scorched-earth strategy

Raw Story  

We speak with Starbucks Workers United organizer and barista Jaz Brisack on the growing Starbucks union drive that has swept across 30 U.S. states since she helped successfully organize the first U.S. unionized location in Buffalo, New York, last December. Brisack also talks about Amazon’s first union in Staten Island, New York, saying the move “shows we as workers and …

Amazon workers in NYC vote to unionize in historic labor win
2 years, 8 months ago

Amazon workers in NYC vote to unionize in historic labor win

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, voted to unionize on Friday, marking the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant’s history and handing an unexpected win to a nascent group that fueled the union drive. Chris Smalls, a fired Amazon employee who has been leading the ALU in its fight on Staten Island, bounded …

Workers in New York vote to form Amazon's first-ever union in US
2 years, 8 months ago

Workers in New York vote to form Amazon's first-ever union in US

Raw Story  

This is a breaking news story. Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York won their election Friday to form the retail giant's first-ever union in the United States, a landmark victory for the labor movement in the face of aggressive union-busting efforts from one of the world's most powerful companies. CNBCreported that "while the official vote tally hasn't been announced, …

Amazon workers at NYC warehouse vote to unionize
2 years, 8 months ago

Amazon workers at NYC warehouse vote to unionize

Al Jazeera  

Amazon.com Inc. workers at a New York warehouse voted to join an upstart labor union, a historic victory that gives organized labor its first foothold in the company’s U.S. operations. It takes one of the biggest, and says you can organize anyone.” Chris Smalls, the leader of the New York effort and a former worker at the Staten Island facility, …

Starbucks workers at 3 more NY stores vote to unionize
2 years, 9 months ago

Starbucks workers at 3 more NY stores vote to unionize

Associated Press  

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Employees at three more Starbucks stores in suburban Buffalo have voted to form unions, a count of ballots revealed Wednesday, bringing to six the number of unionized Starbucks shops and further advancing organizing efforts underway in at least two dozen states. Union supporters said the close results likely reflected what they described as efforts by Starbucks to …

Another Starbucks Store Votes To Unionize
2 years, 9 months ago

Another Starbucks Store Votes To Unionize

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Starbucks workers at a store in Mesa, Arizona, have voted to unionize, adding more fire to a labor campaign that’s spread from coast to coast. In a ballot count held Friday by the National Labor Relations Board, 28 workers at the store voted to join Workers United, the union that’s been organizing the coffee chain since last …

Amazon workers in NYC set to vote on whether to unionize
2 years, 10 months ago

Amazon workers in NYC set to vote on whether to unionize

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The battle to unionize Amazon workers is intensifying after labor officials officially set a date for a union election in a New York City facility next month. Meanwhile, Amazon workers in a Bessemer, Alabama facility are voting by mail for the second time on whether to form a union. The push in Bessemer comes more than two …

Starbucks workers petitioning to unionise at 50 US stores
2 years, 10 months ago

Starbucks workers petitioning to unionise at 50 US stores

Al Jazeera  

Starbucks Corp. employees are now petitioning to unionise at about 50 stores across the US, rapidly expanding the reach of a campaign that last month established the sole unionised foothold among the chain’s thousands of corporate-run US sites. On Monday, the Workers United union said it is filing 15 unionisation petitions with the National Labor Relations Board, which follow dozens …

Starbucks workers agree to union in Buffalo, NY
2 years, 11 months ago

Starbucks workers agree to union in Buffalo, NY

Associated Press  

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Starbucks workers at a store in Buffalo, New York, voted to unionize on Thursday, the latest sign that the labor movement is stirring after decades of decline. The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday that workers voted 19-8 in favor of a union at the Elmwood Avenue location, one of three stores in Buffalo where elections were …

Starbucks vows good faith talks with 1st unionized store
3 years ago

Starbucks vows good faith talks with 1st unionized store

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Starbucks says it will negotiate in good faith with workers at the first store to unionize in the company’s 50-year history. In a letter sent to all U.S. employees Rossann Williams, an executive vice president, said Starbucks never favored unionization and still prefers to speak directly to employees, but respects the legal process and wants to work …

Labor board certifies first union at a US Starbucks store
3 years ago

Labor board certifies first union at a US Starbucks store

Associated Press  

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The National Labor Relations Board confirmed a vote Friday to form a union at a Starbucks store in Buffalo, meaning the coffee retailer, for the first time, will have to bargain with organized labor at a company-owned U.S. store. “We don’t want to fight Starbucks — we’re asking them to turn over a new leaf,” said Jaz …

Starbucks waged ‘shock and awe’ campaign on workers, union claims
3 years ago

Starbucks waged ‘shock and awe’ campaign on workers, union claims

Al Jazeera  

The union won a landmark vote at a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York in the United States last week. Now, it’s urging the National Labor Relations Board to reject results of another location’s failed union vote. The labor group, Workers United, urged the National Labor Relations Board in a filing late Thursday to reject the results of the failed union …

Starbucks workers form first-ever union in company history
3 years ago

Starbucks workers form first-ever union in company history

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In his first public comments following …

Boston Starbucks workers seek to unionize after Buffalo vote
3 years ago

Boston Starbucks workers seek to unionize after Buffalo vote

Associated Press  

BOSTON — Starbucks workers at two locations in Boston are looking to unionize, days after a successful union vote at a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, a first for the 50-year-old coffee retailer in the U.S. GBH News reported Monday at least 36 of some 47 employees at have put their names down on cards indicating they want to form …

Starbucks workers form their 1st union in the U.S. in a big win for labor
3 years ago

Starbucks workers form their 1st union in the U.S. in a big win for labor

NPR  

Starbucks workers form their 1st union in the U.S. in a big win for labor Enlarge this image toggle caption Charles Krupa/AP Charles Krupa/AP Starbucks workers have voted to form their first U.S. union. Workers from one store in Buffalo, N.Y., voted to unionize, in a watershed moment for Starbucks, which operates 8,953 stores in the United States. Buffalo workers …

Amazon workers in New York withdraw petition to unionize
3 years, 1 month ago

Amazon workers in New York withdraw petition to unionize

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The National Labor Relations Board has confirmed that a group of Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York has withdrawn its petition to hold a vote to unionize. As part of its petition to hold a vote, organizers must submit signatures from at least 30% of the roughly 5,500 employees who the union says work at four …

Starbucks workers will vote on union at 3 Buffalo stores
3 years, 1 month ago

Starbucks workers will vote on union at 3 Buffalo stores

Associated Press  

Workers hoping to unionize Starbucks stores in the U.S. have won a preliminary victory before the National Labor Relations Board. The board said employees at three separate Starbucks stores in Buffalo, New York, can hold union elections in November in a new ruling. “It’s been disappointing to see Starbucks working overtime to try to stop us from organizing, but today’s …

Amazon warehouse workers in New York file for a union vote
3 years, 2 months ago

Amazon warehouse workers in New York file for a union vote

NPR  

Amazon warehouse workers in New York file for a union vote Enlarge this image toggle caption Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images Amazon warehouse workers in New York have taken their first formal step toward unionization on Monday. Organizers from Amazon's Staten Island facilities say they've collected some 2,000 signatures from warehouse workers who say they …

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