Starbucks employees and supporters link arms during a union election watch party, December 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y.
STARBUCKS was at the US Supreme Court today seeking to weaken the National Labour Relations Board (NLRB’s) ability to intervene against companies accused of violating workers’ rights.
The court case began on the same day that company bosses met Starbucks Workers United reps to begin their first bargaining session in almost a year.
Workers at 420 company-owned Starbucks outlets across the United States have voted to unionise since 2021, but not one venue has yet secured a recognition agreement.
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
