In five days, we’ll be in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette management will be on the defendant’s side of the courtroom.
After 32 months on strike the company is facing two major issues: an enforcement order from the National Labor Relations Board and contempt charges from the NLRB for the company’s failure to follow a rare 10(e) injunction we won in March.
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In a labor landscape where billionaires and corporations have outsized power and resources to stamp out unionizing campaigns, a different kind of organizing is proving that workers can, and are, fighting back. Worker-to-worker organizing is taking hold, from Amazon warehouses to Starbucks stores to America’s newsrooms. And it’s winning, even when faced with rampant and illegal union-busting activities from the bosses.
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Organizers for Workers United on the Starbucks Workers United campaign and at the New York New Jersey Joint Board have won voluntary recognition after staff in both locations expressed unanimous support for unionizing.
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