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Starbucks Workers' United members
STARBUCKS has been accused of delaying tactics after the ballots at three more of its stores in the Buffalo district of New York were impounded on Wednesday.
The seizure came after the National Labour Relations Board failed to issue a decision on the global coffee chain’s pending request for a review into the vote at Walden & Anderson, Sheridan & Bailey, and French & Transit.
“This is now the second time that ballots have been impounded for Starbucks union elections in the past week,” shift supervisor at the Sheridan & Bailey store Rachel Cohen said.
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
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
