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Starbucks says that while it opened more than 400 stores, it closed over 100 stores in 2022 for a variety of reasons.
MORE: Amazon workers authorize strike at company's first-ever unionized warehouse. In a news release, the union calls it the "largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history" and says it comes after ...
Workers in New York City, southern California and Skokie, Illinois, voted in recent days to authorize a strike should Amazon fail to bargain with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
For union [26] Rock Creek Circle [27] Denver (Superior) Colorado: December 30, 2021 [28] April 22, 2022: For union [29] N. Wabash Avenue: Chicago (Loop) Illinois: December 30, 2021 [30] June 7, 2022: Against union [31] Logan & California: Chicago (Logan Square) Illinois: January 7, 2022 [32] June 7, 2022: Against union [31] Willamette: Eugene ...
The next week, federal troops were called out to force an end to the nationwide strike. At the "Battle of the Viaduct" in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, between protesting members of the Chicago German Furniture Workers Union, now Local 1784 of the Carpenters Union, and federal troops killed 30 workers and wounded over 100.
For nearly a decade prior to 1903, an industrial union called the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) had been increasing in power, militancy, and radicalism as a response to dangerous working conditions, employer-employee inequality, the imposition of long hours of work, and what members perceived as an imperious attitude on the part of employers.
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The state and the nation's largest union of public employees will head to court over an arbitrator's decision that Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner was within his rights to order the layoffs of more than 150 state workers last year. [10] The state filed a suit before a Sangamon County, Illinois judge to uphold the arbitrator's ruling. AFSCME Council ...