Unionizing Isn’t Enough: Starbucks Workers Demand a Fair Contract
In 2021, workers from multiple Starbucks locations in Buffalo, NY stood together to fight for changes in the workplace and filed a petition to unionize as Starbucks Workers United (SBWU). For years Starbucks workers have faced low wages, short staffing, and harassment in the workplace while navigating inconsistent and unpredictable work schedules. The Elmwood store […]
Mini rooms, 22.4, and electric vehicles: What’s going on in the labor movement today?
This is a repost of an article written by Adam Shils for the International Socialism Project posted on June 19, 2023. The labor movement is back in the news. The Screen Writers strike has gained wide publicity as A-list actors support the picket lines. Starbucks workers appear to unionize a new store every day. High […]
Starbucks – Hands Off Your Worker-Organizers!
In recent months, workers at over 220 Starbucks locations in 33 states across the United States have organized to join a union, with a store in Buffalo, New York being the first store to unionize back in December 2021. The struggle has not come without some serious consequences. Many of the core organizers across the […]
Hard days on the picket lines, but baristas pour into unions
This is a repost of a recent article by Adam Shils for the International Socialism Project, originally posted on August 17, 2022. We post reprints like this to call attention to important ideas that might influence working class and other organizing, whether we agree with those ideas wholeheartedly or not, and to stimulate constructive discussion […]
Labor Notes 2022 — A Reason to be Hopeful
This year’s Labor Notes Conference in Chicago brought a record number of activists and rank and file workers from across the country. According to the organizers, they had to cap registration at 4,000 people in order not to overload the hotel staff. Labor Notes started in 1979 as a magazine initiated by some members of […]