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In SeaTac, a small suburban community whose economy centers around the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, the minimum wage was increased to $15 per hour in 2014 without any intermediate stages, which resulted in heavy media attention. [77] In 2014, Seattle became the first major city in the US to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
In Collective Bargaining On June 30, 2021, it was announced that 70 workers at Change.Org had received voluntary recognition of their union and will be represented by CODE-CWA for collective bargaining. [32] To date, Change.org is the largest tech company to voluntarily recognize a union as the representative of its staff.
The current method for workers to form a union in a particular workplace in the United States is a sign-up, and then an election process. In that, a petition or an authorization card with the signatures of at least 30% of the employees requesting a union is submitted to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), who then verifies and orders a secret ballot election.
Seattle-based Starbucks said Workers United prematurely ended a bargaining session this week. Starbucks has nearly 10,000 company-owned stores in the U.S. “We are ready to continue negotiations ...
The five-day strike is slated in Chicago, Seattle, and Los Angeles, the union posted on X late Thursday, in response to the company" backtracking on our promised path forward."
On Thursday, Starbucks Workers United, a union representing 525 Starbucks stores in the U.S., said that baristas in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle would go on strike in the coming days.
Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers.
National Labor Relations Board, 308 U.S. 401 (1940) (awarding a longshoremen's unit to the CIO rather than the AFL), and American Can Co., 13 NLRB 1252 (1939) (unit's history of collective bargaining outweighs desire of workers to form craft-only unit). [42]