The U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) petitioned a federal court on Friday to force Starbucks to reinstate three employees the NLRB claims were fired due to their union campaigning.
"Employees have the fundamental right to choose whether or not they want to be represented by the union without restraint or coercion by their employer. The faith of Starbucks employees nationwide in workplace democracy will not be restored unless these employees are immediately reinstated under the protection of a federal court order," said NLRB Regional Director Cornele Overstreet in a statement.
According to CNBC, "more than 200 Starbucks locations have filed paperwork to unionize under Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union," and 24 stores have already voted to unionize.
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On Friday, The New York Post reported that leaked video of a meeting between Starbucks managers and executives showed Rossann Williams, the company's president for North America, denying that Starbucks is engaging in "union-busting." In the same video, CEO Howard Schultz appeared to refer to the unionization push as an "outside force that's trying desperately to disrupt our company."
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Starbucks should be welcoming the unions. Unions are all about the worker and worker rights. Socialism, communism and unions are all one and the same with the same result; the worker gets tired and the organizers/union bosses/party leaders get rich.
ReplyDeleteThe unions destroyed the auto industry in the US and Canada. I grew up in Windsor, which is right across the river from Detroit. It was the Canadian equivalent of Motown--back in the 70s--about 90% of the kids in my class had dads working in one of The Big Three factories or the feeder factories for them. I also remember that in the mid to late 70s there seemed to be a strike at one plant or another every year--which ofcourse led to the Teamsters not crossing picket lines to deliver/pick up their parts/cars. The management of the Big Three were so pre-occupied with keeping the unions from going on strike that they totally missed the boat on designing smaller, fuel-efficient automobiles...which allowed the Japanese to take a huge share of the N. American market, caused a whole lot of unemployment in both Detroit and Windsor, and almost put Chrysler out of business. Then when NAFTA was enacted...The Big Three went down to Mexico making the mid-West the rust belt we know today. All those factory jobs in the US and Canada, which during WW2 were converted from making cars to airplanes, tanks and guns gone to Mexicans. There isn't much of a heavy industry in the States or Canada anymore should the balloon go up again----thanks UAW/CAW.
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