Here’s what Southern US workers were up to from September 1-7: 10 workers at Blue Sprocket Pressing in Harrisonburg, VA filed for a union election with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 29 9 maintenance workers at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital in Saint Louis, MO filed for a union election with the Service…
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BOSS WATCH: 8/25 – 9/1
Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, September 1 ALABAMA KILLER Last year, Brett Savage, a 36-year-old communications technician with the Alabama Forestry Commission and a resident of Deatsville, in Elmore County, was killed instantly when the communications tower he was helping a crew remove unexpectedly fell on top of him…
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Last Week in Southern Labor: 8/25 – 9/1
Here’s what Southern US workers were up to from August 25 – September 1: 36 workers at the North Carolina Association of Educators in Raleigh, North Carolina filed for a union election with the North Carolina Staff Organization, and then withdrew their petition in the same week. 22 workers at Statesville Painting and Maintenance in…
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BOSS WATCH: 8/18 – 8/25
We have an Alabama employer on the list this week, and so many companies stealing from their employees and putting them in illegally-dangerous workplaces that we didn’t have room for EEOC cases this week. It’s bad, folks! Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, August 25 ALABAMA MUTILATOR The Texas-based operator…
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Scottsboro Workers Go On First Ever Strike Against Starbucks in Alabama
Nearly the entire staff for the small Starbucks store on John T Reid Parkway in Scottsboro greeted hundreds of patrons on Sunday differently than they normally do. On the first Sunday that the popular Pumpkin Spice Latte would have been served, they told their customers that they were on strike and the store was closed.…
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Last Week in Southern Labor: 8/18 – 8/25
Here’s what Southern US workers were up to from August 18 – 25: 1,722 PHD students providing instructional and research services at the private Emory University in Atlanta, GA filed for a union election with Workers United. They are holding a rally on Monday, 8/28 from 10-11am on the Quad outside the administration building. In…
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Last Week in Southern Labor: 8/11 – 8/18
When Jonah Furman was doing his newsletter – Who Gets the Bird – we loved getting updates about the US Labor Movement right in our inbox. Our project won’t be as ambitious – we’re just wanting to capture everything workers are doing in the South – but we hope you’ll enjoy it nevertheless! Please do…
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BOSS WATCH: 8/11 – 8/18
Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, August 18 TENNESSEE RETALIATOR The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Memphis Starbucks violated the National Labor Relations Act when it fired seven workers over union organizing efforts. The NLRA gives workers the right to form a…
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Last Week in Southern Labor: 8/4 – 8/11
When Jonah Furman was doing his newsletter – Who Gets the Bird – we loved getting updates about the US Labor Movement right in our inbox. Our project won’t be as ambitious – we’re just wanting to capture everything workers are doing in the South – but we hope you’ll enjoy it nevertheless! Please do…
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Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, August 11 | BOSS WATCH
We’ve had a great reaction to our most recent recurring segment on The Valley Labor Report, so we’re going to be sending this out as a newsletter every week. It’s important that people understand how often bosses break the law – with working people as their victims – because of how skewed our media structure…
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Lessons from the longest strike in Starbucks Workers United history
The Starbucks union at 874 Commonwealth Avenue, Brookline, Massachusetts, never intended to start the longest strike in Starbucks history. It had seemed like an unlikely place for any unrest. Though the store had unionized last March, it had had a friendly relationship with its manager. Things were good until less than three months later, 874…
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Rank-and-File Teamsters React to State of UPS Contract Negotiations
It’s been an eventful several weeks for both UPS and the Teamsters union as the two entities have been embroiled in a showdown over contract negotiations, with the current contract set to expire by the end of the month, now only a handful of days away. As we reported last week, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien…