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Members of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 555 went on a one-week unfair labor practices strike against Fred Meyer and QFC stores in Portland, Oregon, on December 17, 2021.
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Two months after Ithaca, New York, became the first city to unionize all of its Starbucks locations, Starbucks announced a dramatic alteration to its business plan for the city: It was closing a shop with one week’s notice. The coffee leviathan stated the store was closing due to “efficiency” concerns and would not guarantee new jobs for the location’s workers.
The closing of the store was just one attack out of many in an unprecedented battle for unionization sweeping Amazon warehouses in New York and Starbucks drive-throughs in California. Workers have momentum, but the challenges they face are stiff indeed. Chronic underfunding at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which is tasked with taking on anti-labor retaliation, and the probable impending Democratic midterm wipeout, might make American labor law virtually a dead letter. Democrats must pass a large increase in the agency’s funding in upcoming budget negotiations to protect the rights of American workers.
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