Tag: organizing
Affton Starbucks workers strike on Labor Day over unfair Labor practices
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Missouri Correspondent
Affton, MO – Fed up with Starbucks’ union-busting tactics, Starbucks baristas at the Gravois and Rock Hill roads location went on...
Employees at Terrabis cannabis dispensary in O’Fallon file for union election
More cannabis workers in Missouri are seeking union representation through United Food and Commercial Workers Local 655. Employees at Terrabis Dispensary in O’Fallon, Mo....
Organizer Saket Soni’s book ‘The Great Escape’ is an immigrant story...
By LINDA JARRET
Correspondent
It began with a midnight phone call.
“When my parents called me the night of my 29th birthday, Nov. 26, 2006, I was...
St. Louis Starbucks workers win union election
Store is the sixth unionized location in St. Louis
Starbucks Workers United continues to expand its nationwide coalition of baristas organizing for better working conditions...
St. Louis Apple Store employees file for election to join Machinists...
Richmond Heights, MO – St. Louis Galleria Apple store employees are organizing.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) filed a petition with...
Teachers, staff at KIPP St. Louis charter school vote to unionize
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
In a first for St. Louis charter schools, teachers and staff at KIPP St. Louis High School voted by an overwhelming...
St. Louis Ballet wants to join union
With an overwhelming majority of support, the dancers with Saint Louis Ballet have signed cards to form a union and join the American Guild...
Labor allies attend ‘eat-in’ at Union Station Hotel to support workers...
Management has hired consultants to intimidate employees
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Missouri Correspondent
Eight Labor allies gathered for an “eat-in” at St. Louis Union Station Hotel last week...
Machinists help Apple retailer workers win recognition vote, 2-1
Towson, Md. (PAI) – By a 2-1 ratio, the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (CORE), a worker-led union aided by the Machinists, took a...
Workers at first Apple retail store file to unionize
Retail workers at the Apple Cumberland Mall store in Atlanta, Ga., filed with the National Labor Relations Board April 20 for a union election...