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Starbucks Ordered to Reinstate Fired Activist Employees

How two best friends beat Amazon and INDEPENDENTLY organized its first labor union in New York

Starbucks workers at a Buffalo store unionize for the first time

Starbucks employees reinstated by NLRB after unionizing

The NLRB filed a petition in a U.S. District Court on May 10, 2022 requesting courts force the employer to "cease and desist" unfair labor practice and immediately rehire the seven workers back.

Starbucks workers at a Buffalo store unionize for the first time

How two best friends beat Amazon and INDEPENDENTLY organized its first labor union in New York

Starbucks workers at a Buffalo store unionize for the first time

Starbucks employees unionize in Buffalo

Employees at a Buffalo-area Starbucks have voted to form a union on Dec 12, 2021, making it the first of the nearly 9,000 company-owned stores in the United States to be organized and highlighting an important symbolic victory for labor at a time when workers across the country are expressing frustration with wages and working conditions. 

How two best friends beat Amazon and INDEPENDENTLY organized its first labor union in New York

How two best friends beat Amazon and INDEPENDENTLY organized its first labor union in New York

How two best friends beat Amazon and INDEPENDENTLY organized its first labor union in New York

Chris Smalls celebrates as Amazon unionizes in Staten Island

Derrick Palmer, in pink, and Christian Smalls, right, celebrated after workers voted to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island on April 20, 2022. 

Trader Joe’s store in Massachusetts becomes first to unionize

Trader Joe’s store in Massachusetts becomes first to unionize

How two best friends beat Amazon and INDEPENDENTLY organized its first labor union in New York

Trader Joe's Unionizes

Following a recent trend of service workers organizing at companies like Starbucks, Apple and Amazon, employees at a Trader Joe’s in Hadley, Mass., voted to unionize on July 28, 2022.
 

Barista Jaz Brisack took on Starbucks—and won

Trader Joe’s store in Massachusetts becomes first to unionize

Apple store workers vote to form first Apple labor union

Jaz Brisack unionizes Starbucks in Buffalo

After Oxford, Brisack didn’t vie for a Yale law degree like Clinton, or a cushy consulting gig like Buttigieg. Instead, she got a job at the Elmwood Avenue Starbucks in Buffalo, NY. A year later, she organized the first successful organization among staff of a corporate-owned Starbucks store in the United States. 

Apple store workers vote to form first Apple labor union

Trader Joe’s store in Massachusetts becomes first to unionize

Apple store workers vote to form first Apple labor union

Apple employees unionize in Maryland

Apple employees at a Baltimore-area store have voted to unionize on June 18, 2022, making it the first of the company’s 270-plus stores in the United States to join a trend in labor organizing sweeping through retailers, restaurants and tech companies. 

The revolt of the college-educated working class

BUFFETT REJECTS SANDERS' CALL TO INTERVENE IN UNION NEGOTIATIONS

BUFFETT REJECTS SANDERS' CALL TO INTERVENE IN UNION NEGOTIATIONS

The revolt of the educated on New York Times

Since the Great Recession, the college-educated have taken more frontline jobs at companies like Starbucks and Amazon. Now they’re helping to unionize them. 

BUFFETT REJECTS SANDERS' CALL TO INTERVENE IN UNION NEGOTIATIONS

BUFFETT REJECTS SANDERS' CALL TO INTERVENE IN UNION NEGOTIATIONS

BUFFETT REJECTS SANDERS' CALL TO INTERVENE IN UNION NEGOTIATIONS

Warren Buffett and labor unions

Our companies deal individually with their own labor and personnel decisions (except for the selection of the CEO), Buffett said in a letter back to Sanders in Dec 2021. We have never purchased or sold a company because of its union or non-union status. Some of our companies have as many as a dozen unions; others have none.

WARREN BUFFETT AND THE MYTH OF THE ‘GOOD BILLIONAIRE’

BUFFETT REJECTS SANDERS' CALL TO INTERVENE IN UNION NEGOTIATIONS

DOJ: BUFFETT COMPANY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BLACK HOMEBUYERS

Warren Buffett and corporate greed

As America slouches toward plutocracy, our problem isn’t the virtue level of billionaires. It’s a set of social arrangements that make it possible for anyone to gain and guard and keep so much wealth, even as millions of others lack for food, work, housing, health, connectivity, education, dignity and the occasion to pursue their happiness. 

DOJ: BUFFETT COMPANY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BLACK HOMEBUYERS

DOJ: BUFFETT COMPANY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BLACK HOMEBUYERS

DOJ: BUFFETT COMPANY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BLACK HOMEBUYERS

Warren Buffett and corporate greed

A Pennsylvania mortgage company owned by billionaire businessman Warren Buffett, discriminated against potential Black and Latino homebuyers in Philadelphia, New Jersey and Delaware, the Department of Justice said on July 27, 2022, in what is being called the second-largest redlining settlement in history. 

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