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Pro-union pins sit on a table during a watch party for Starbucks' employees union election, December 9, 2021, in Buffalo, New York
STARBUCKS workers at Buffalo’s Genesee Street cafe became the latest to join the Starbucks Workers United revolution sweeping the United States after voting in favour of union representation.
The National Labour Relations Board ruled in favour of the global coffee chain’s employees, who had voted to unionise by a margin of 15 to nine.
Starbucks challenged the initial count, claiming that some of the votes had been cast by workers at another branch.
US-based labour and social movements authors and organisers Robert Ovetz and James Tracy interview DANIEL GROSS about his new book, Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World
HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
In the final part of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explains how in 2018, after years spent rebuilding the PCS into a leading force against austerity, a damaging rupture emerged from within the union’s own left wing
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR