@jeridansky @ai6yr oh yikes ouch. Dang it. #union #Unions #Unionization #rei

The #restaurant #industry has long coordinated efforts to suppress labor costs through the #NRA, a multimillion-dollar #lobbying machine funded both by its restaurant members and by the fees #workers pay for required food-safety classes, according to a recent New York Times report.

The group has spent its #war chest on lobbying campaigns to preserve a subminimum #wage for tipped workers — who are disproportionately young, women, and people of color, and far more likely to live in #poverty than regular minimum wage workers — and to help block state and federal sick leave proposals and minimum wage increases.

But now, restaurant executives are on edge. #Union campaigns are suddenly penetrating their industry, which employs about 10 percent of the American #workforce and has one of the lowest #unionization rates of any sector. Over the past few years, baristas have #unionized nearly 280 Starbucks stores in the face of enormous odds, and dozens of other coffee #shops and restaurants have followed suit.

“The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, every newspaper reports on every union win… when an unfair labor practice charge is filed, when there are challenges to elections,” said Felice Ekelman, a principal at Jackson Lewis, one of the oldest and most infamous union avoidance law firms in the country. “When did this become first page #news?”

“And guess who’s reading it?” replied Laura Pierson-Scheinberg, one of Ekelman’s Jackson Lewis colleagues, as the two sat across from each other on the main stage of the summit. “My kids. Literally. I have an 18-year-old, my kids are into it.”

The two lawyers were discussing a new threat for the restaurant industry: the unexpected rise of union campaigns in workplaces that, for decades, have largely been immune from such organizing efforts.

“Before, I used to say… ‘[Unionization] isn’t a problem for you in the restaurant industry,’” said Pierson-Scheinberg. But now, she warned, “Kids do not care about paying union dues. Two percent of pay, are you kidding me? Their Netflix costs more. They think it’s a hell of a deal.”

The “kids,” she added, are #organizing #workplaces which would have previously seemed unreachable.

https://www.levernews.com/fear-and-loathing-among-the-union-busters/

Vice: Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dy3xej/companies-that-union-bust-must-now-automatically-recognize-union-nlrb-rules #unionization #Teamsters #laborlaw #unions #SCOTUS #NLRB

Vice: Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dy3xej/companies-that-union-bust-must-now-automatically-recognize-union-nlrb-rules #unionization #Teamsters #laborlaw #unions #SCOTUS #NLRB

Vice: Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dy3xej/companies-that-union-bust-must-now-automatically-recognize-union-nlrb-rules #unionization #Teamsters #laborlaw #unions #SCOTUS #NLRB

https://www.commondreams.org/news/nlrb-cemex-union-busting

Small step return towards #JoySilk, #CardCheck #unionization in 1930s and 40s

#Cemex #UnionBusting #UnionStrong #union #Unionize #Unionise #Capitalism #Exploitation #ClassWar

Vice: Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dy3xej/companies-that-union-bust-must-now-automatically-recognize-union-nlrb-rules #unionization #Teamsters #laborlaw #unions #SCOTUS #NLRB

Each resided over a justice system hell bent to uphold #whitesupremacy thru divestment, impoverishment, and incarceration. Each modern president resided over erasing the rights of the working class in favor of siphoning all the wealth generated from their labor to a chosen few, minimizing #Unionization.

To make Trump exceptional is to miss the point. It ensures that the future holders of the office will continue the same policies. We must hold each one accountable.

Your mental health shouldn't be commoditized and compartmentalized by your company into well-defined #wellness time. It's a con; a ploy to distract from #LivableWages, #Regulation, #Unionization, and to keep focus on profit above all. This is giving a millimeter to forgo the meter of real progress. Of course, take the time and do what you have to do.
Jobs and societies should be structured around wellness as a fundamental basis of living.

#Capitalism
#mentalhealth

Vice: Grindr Tells Unionizing Workers: Move Across The Country or Be Fired https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjv3gm/grindr-tells-unionizing-workers-move-across-the-country-or-be-fired #returntooffice #unionization #Grindr #Dating #Union #LGBTQ #queer #labor

@ChristyLeeHughes @weirdmustard I don't get why unions require minimum incomes.

Cuz that's not how #Unionization in #Germany works at all...

For Context: #Germans are so pro-union, they basically boycotted #Walmart out of Germany!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxtXI0K4YJs

And seriously, I do consider joining a union as well...

If CEO’ve #fired so many #workers, how can the broader #economy be #prospering? And worse yet, prospering under Democratic administrations that promote such nonsense as #unionization, higher #wages, and even higher #taxes on the #rich

#conspiracy: In a properly ordered universe, that’s an impossibility that requires fudging the numbers to paint a picture of low unemployment.

https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php

#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence

This obviously is not relegated to grad students. Data show that across the country, the number of hours worked in order to afford median #rent has skyrocketed. It's no wonder that #unionization is on the rise. We're in an acute #CostofLiving crisis, and having a boat does not preclude you from also having compassion.

We gave corporations too much power.

Now they just out here not giving a fraction of a fuck anymore.

Google lays off contractors who unionized last month | Engadget https://www.engadget.com/google-lays-off-contractors-who-unionized-last-month-193020753.html?src=rss

#Google #Contractors #Layoffs #Unionization #TechNews

• NIH #postdoc, #postbac, and #gradstudent researchers are unionizing, partially to get a raise

• However, #Congress controls the #NIH budget (and doesn't like NIH very much)

• Twist: NIH already gave IRTA fellows a raise, but won't say where the $ is from

So where's the money coming from? External grant funds?

Me for @statnews:
https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/11/nih-union-pay-raise/

#research #science #sciencepolicy #medicine #health #healthcare #unionization #labor

Why companies say you're 'family' while underpaying you https://therealnews.com/why-companies-say-youre-family-while-underpaying-you #unionization #organizing #facts #truestory

Vice: SEGA of America Workers Vote to Unionize https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3m39a/sega-of-america-workers-vote-to-unionize #qualityassurance #gamedevelopment #unionization #VIDEOGAME #qatester #sonic #Sega #NLRB

by #KevinTampone in Syracuse.Com:

"U.S. National Labor Relations Board judge Arthur Amchan wrote in his ruling Thursday that the shutdown of the store near Cornell 'was done in large part to discourage unionization efforts in Ithaca and elsewhere,' Bloomberg said.

"The judge said Starbucks repeatedly violated the National Labor Relations Act in Ithaca by punishing union supporters."

https://www.syracuse.com/business/2023/07/starbucks-violated-federal-law-with-shutdown-of-ithaca-store-judge-rules-report.html

#Ithaca #NewYork #NLRB #union #workers #labor #unionization #retaliation #Starbucks

by #DeborahMarySophia in #Reuters:

"More than 3,000 workers at over 150 Starbucks (SBUX.O) stores in the United States will walk off the job over the next week, the union representing the coffee chain's baristas said on Friday, following claims the company had banned Pride Month decorations at some of its cafes.

"The strikes are also aimed at pushing the company to reach fair labor contracts for improved pay and benefits, the Starbucks Workers United union added. The company is yet to reach any collective bargaining agreements at its newly unionized cafes."

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/starbucks-workers-over-150-stores-strike-over-pride-decor-row-2023-06-23/

#Starbucks #strike #StarbucksWorkersUnited #union #unionization #workers #WorkersRights #pride #PrideMonth #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ

by #CurtisBrodner for #1010Wins

"Projectionists at a New York City Alamo Drafthouse, the movie theater chain known for serving food and drinks during screenings, filed a petition to unionize with the National Labor Review Board on Wednesday.

"Two days after the petition was filed and one day after the NLRB sent official notice to the company, Alamo sent an internal email notifying staff of the company's intention to do away with the projectionist position and replace it with a more expansive 'technical engineer' role."

https://www.audacy.com/1010wins/news/local/nyc-alamo-drafthouse-workers-file-petition-to-unionize

#unions #unionization #NewYorkCity #NYC #AlamoDrafthouse #NLRB