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Showing posts with label labor relations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label labor relations. Show all posts
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Starbucks employees are trying to “kick down the door” across the entire food and beverage service industry

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Less than one and one-half miles away from the flagship Starbucks that launched a global coffee empire five decades ago, employees unanimous...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

In a stunning move, billion-dollar Starbucks investors urge the coffee retailer to go “union neutral”

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Trillium Asset Management, which holds $48 million of Starbucks stock, is leading the charge on behalf of a billion-dollar-plus group of inv...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Does your employment lawyer speak emoji and meme?

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After a workplace discussion between employees about employees had been discussing concerns about a superior's management style, an empl...
Monday, March 7, 2022

THIS is why craft breweries need to pay very close attention to labor unions

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It was a simple  question posed in the Craft Beef Professionals Facebook group : "Conversations on fair compensation are extremely imp...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

We are officially in the Golden Age of Union Organizing. How will your company respond?

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Yesterday, the White House Task Force on Worker Organization and Empowerment released its 45-page report  on the use of executive branch pol...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

John Oliver’s exposé on "union busting” missed one key fact — the unions are actually WINNING

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This past Sunday night, John Oliver closed his 2021 season with a long-form exposé on labor unions . More specifically, he focused on the ef...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

“Striketober” highlights union organizing concerns for Ohio craft breweries

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One of the unexpected byproducts of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is a corresponding rise in union organizing and other union-related activi...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Netflix’s termination of the organizer of a trans employee walkout very well might be legal

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Late Friday, The Verge reported that Netflix fired one of the leaders of an internal trans employee resource group who was organizing an em...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

When protected concerted activity isn’t protected

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Netflix has fired three marketing executives for criticizing their co-workers over Slack. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "the ex...
Friday, February 19, 2021

The number one reason not to have a labor union

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You would think that an employee who purposely defecates on the workplace floor in an act of revenge against his boss and then brags about i...
Friday, January 8, 2021

When you discover that you employ a seditious rebel #TraitorsGettingFired

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Imagine you discover that Elizabeth from Knoxville is one of your employees. Elizabeth wasn’t ready for the revolution to be televised😂 pic...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

BLM vs. MAGA at work

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Depending on your political perspective, Goodyear is either being praised or criticized after this slide from diversity training at its Top...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Meet the new boss, same as the old, old boss—NLRB issues long-awaited final rule on “joint employment”

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Yesterday, the NLRB announced its long-awaited final rule governing joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act. The ru...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Amazon’s crackdown on employee climate-change protesters is a teachable moment on employee speech rights

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Earlier this year, Amazon threatened to fire  two employees who spoke out against the company’s stance on climate change. In addition, the...
Thursday, February 6, 2020

Labor issues when you acquire a company with a union

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Spotify recently announced that it is acquiring The Ringer, one of the most prolific and popular podcasting networks. Spotify also indica...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Federal appeals court orders NLRB to determine whether workplace harassment laws trump the National Labor Relations Act

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You might recall Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood , a 2018 NLRB case in which the Board held that offensive graffiti scrawled on an ...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

NLRB rolls back 2 key Obama era anti-management decisions

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This week, the National Labor Relations Board decided two cases that rolled back key Obama era anti-management NLRB decisions. Apogee Ret...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

The 4 things you cannot do to pro-union employees (hint: number 1 is fire them)

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Four former Google employees claim that their ex-employer fired them Thanksgiving week in retaliation for their efforts to organize a labor...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Girl Scouts good / union organizers bad

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What rights do you have to ban union organizers from your property? A lot. Your property is your property. What if, however, you allow ...
Monday, September 9, 2019

NLRB asks for help to overturn some really $%#^ bad decisions

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“Bob is such a NASTY MOTHER FUCKER don’t know how to talk to people!!!!!! Fuck his mother and his entire fucking family!!!! What a LOSER!!...