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Union badges at the Starbucks outlet in Buffalo, New York
STARBUCKS workers urged it to drop its anti-union stance and sit round the table in an olive branch to the global coffee chain on Friday.
Last week’s historic victory saw the Starbucks store in Elmwood, Buffalo become the first to form a union.
The National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) confirmed on Friday that Workers United, which represents some 86,000 workers, will be certified as the bargaining representative.
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
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
PAUL W FLEMING is unequivocal that Labour’s unpreparedness and resulting ambiguity on copyright in the creative industries has to be reined in with policies that will reverse the growing abuse by Big Tech AI
