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The strike is due to start Friday in three cities — Starbucks’ hometown, Seattle, as well as Chicago and Los Angeles, which the union described as key markets for the company.
The five-day strike began Friday and initially shut down Starbucks locations in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle before spreading to cafes in New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Denver ...
A walkout by baristas at Starbucks expanded on Tuesday, as more workers joined at five-day labor action against the coffee giant in a protest that comes to a close later in the day. The Seattle ...
They signed a three-year agreement in 2021. [26] Starting in 2023, with a store in Waterloo joining the United Steelworkers union, Ontario became the third Canadian province to have unionized locations. [27] This breakthrough was followed with rapid expansion in the following year, with successful union votes in Kitchener, [28] Ajax, and ...
In a press release dated March 10, 2008 Andy Stern of the SEIU accused the CNA of union busting: "The California Nurses Association has launched an anti-union campaign against nurses and other healthcare employees in Ohio, seeking to derail a three-year effort by the workers to unite in District 1199 of the Service Employees International Union."
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.
If the company gave a lower increase to non-union workers in any given year, it still would give union workers a 1.5% increase. Starbucks said its U.S. baristas make an average of $18 per hour.
The area around Piatt was continuously occupied from October 9 to sometime around December 25. Cleveland: October 6, 2011 150 [224] Occupy Cleveland Columbus: September 27, 2011 70 [225] Including protest at Ohio State University: Dayton [226] Kent: Including protest at Kent State University: Toledo [227] Youngstown: October 15, 2011 [228 ...