Tag: National Labor Relations Board
Employees at downtown Providence Starbucks unionize
PROVIDENCE – Employees at a downtown Starbucks have become the first Starbucks store in Rhode Island to unionize.
Workers at the 1 Financial Plaza store...
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Work policies may need refresh after NLRB ruling
A recent National Labor Relations Board ruling may force employers of all sizes to rewrite their employee policy handbooks to meet a new legal...
Biden: Tentative railway labor deal reached, averting strike
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden said Thursday that a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a strike that could have been...
Starbucks asks labor board to halt union votes temporarily
Starbucks is asking the National Labor Relations Board to suspend all union elections at its U.S. stores in response to a whistleblower's allegations of...
Efforts to unionize growing
Union membership had been on the decline during the pandemic but may suddenly be in the midst of a revival.
A wave of self-organizing efforts...
A rank and file revival: New labor movement hits R.I.
Starbucks customers swinging through the drive-thru on a June morning in Warwick were greeted by something many weren’t expecting: a group of baristas and...
Suddenly, the new U.S. union movement
In a result that could reverberate across the U.S., the independent Amazon Labor Union – first formed in 2020 by Chris Smalls, an Amazon.com...
Union: Greenleaf marijuana dispensary worker reinstated after claiming wrongful termination
PORTSMOUTH – A worker at the Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center who claims he was wrongfully terminated in June for his union organizing efforts has...
Cellphone bans in the workplace reexamined
Cellphones in the workplace can be a distraction – but they could also save your life.
In the aftermath of a devastating tornado ripping through an Amazon.com...
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