How big companies like Tesla and Starbucks are fending off unionization

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Though surveys show that the public is increasingly pro-labor, big employers are not shy about aggressively fending off unionization.

on Monday that Starbucks unfairly fired two organizers in Philadelphia and ordered that they be reinstated with back pay.

Explaining that Schultz would soon step down as CEO the same month as the hearing, the company offered a lower-ranking executive to appear in his place. In a letter to Sanders, the company's general counsel emphasized it's been "a model employer" and an industry leader when it comes to compensation and benefitsFor the past year, newly unionized Starbucks workers have been meeting with the company's lawyers and representatives to try to negotiate a deal.

Jasmine Leli, a Starbucks union leader in Buffalo who's been in several of these sessions, says the process has been both empowering — because early on workers could list their proposals — and "frustrating," because the company hasn't said much of anything in session.

The company said it objects to "virtual broadcasts of bargaining sessions." And the union's insistence on them is a "delay tactic." Starbucks has filed 90 unfair labor practice charges against the union since October 2022.

 

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pro labor until we start paying 30 dollars for a cheese burger. realism needs to be part of progress.

What 'surveys' please provide them WITH methodology.

No, the public is not increasingly pro-union. In 2023, unions cause more problems than they solve.

Billionaires need that extra cash to be abominable in new ways and perverse ways.

Corporate greed is the 1 threat to democracy. We need to find out who I’d behind the dark money funding the idualliance. Are the IDU behind these anti worker, anti union policies?

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