PSLabor: Your Union Free Advantage

A mobile app developed in Peoria seeks to move union organizing into the digital age.

A whole crew of Starbucks employees in Buffalo, New York, walked out after a manager fired someone.Sam Amato, the employee in question, was fired from the store last week after working for Starbucks for over 13 years. The location, whose employees voted to unionize in March, has been closed sinc

After the victory on Staten Island, Amazon workers across the country have expressed interest in organizing a union. The latest site for potential unionization: the SDF1 Amazon facility in Campbellsville, Kentucky.

With the Illinois Right to Collective Bargaining Measure appearing on the midterm ballot this November, workers have potential for a major win. Designated “Amendment 1,” the legislation would establish a state constitutional right to collective bargaining, counteracting “right-to-work” laws that prohibit making union membership a condition of employment. Eric Bailey, the communications director fo

A regional director with the labor board says Starbucks broke so many laws that it irreparably tainted the union election process in western New York.

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Employees from companies ranging from airlines to retail and tech are unionizing more than ever before.

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Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh will meet with union leaders Thursday including Christian Smalls, the former Amazon employee who helped successfully organize workers at an Amazon facility in Staten Island.

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In the aftermath of their hard-won labor victory, Amazon workers in the New York City borough of Staten Island popped Champagne, cheered their victory and danced in celebration

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The union-busting campaign carried out by Starbucks indicates that the company will not stop until they destroy Starbucks Workers United. The rest of the labor movement has a duty to support the Starbucks union drive — before it’s too late.

Union corporate organizing campaigns are picking up steam with a verity of targets with no end in sight. Former AFL-CIO President, Richard Trumka, on many occasions referred to corporate campaigns as the “death of a thousand cuts”.

'Unusually aggravated misconduct' determined by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in awards including attorney fees.

An Aug. 2 post on twitter from @UnionBustingBot, revealing Starbucks had recently hired former Pinkerton employee and CIA agent Amanda Stanfill as the Manager for Global Intelligence for Retail Operations, went viral. Stanfill has quite an impressive resume as an agent of the imperialist U.S. securi

Wow! What an amazing weekend. Thank you to all 4,000 troublemakers who converged in Chicago June 17-19 and made this year's Labor Notes Conference incredible. The energy you brought, the stories you shared, the connections you made, the ideas and plans you're bringing back home—that's what it's all about. Special thanks to everyone who volunteered their time, interpreted between languages, donated money, spoke in workshops and panels, led meetings, and shared songs, poems, and art!

Starbucks Workers United has already organized 146 locations in about six months. While that’s a fraction of Starbucks’ 9,000 US stores, it’s one of the most successful labor campaigns in decades.

The once-popular coffee shop in Midtown has been closed since January, after numerous workers caught COVID-19.

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Americans view labor unions more favorably than they have in decades, and the recent shift in support seems to be yielding results. The private sector unionization rate was jus

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The Amazon warehouse in Staten Island held the first successful organizing effort in the company's history.

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U.S. labor board prosecutors have determined that anti-union meetings held by Amazon.com Inc. in Staten Island, New York, violated federal law, according to an agency spokesperson.

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The start of a movement or a moment? / AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez Successful union drives at two of America’s biggest companies were led by committed individuals, not established unions. I…

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