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Union Busting
March 29, 2023
Timothy Noah
Howard Schultz’s Excuse for Union-Busting: I Grew Up in Public Housing!
Starbucks’s ex-CEO tells Bernie Sanders’s committee he loves his workers. Why won’t they love him back?
January 5, 2023
Magazine
Bryce Covert
Starbucks Workers Are Unionizing. Their Bosses Are Refusing to Bargain.
After a banner year for organizing the retail and service industries, workers are learning a hard truth about labor negotiations.
December 23, 2022
Rebekah Entralgo
Union Buster of the Year: Howard Schultz
The rapid-fire unionization of Starbucks stores across the country has been a bright spot for labor this year, no thanks to the insane union-busting tactics of greedy Starbucks execs.
October 3, 2022
Timothy Noah
California’s Tough New Fast Food Wage Law Is Exactly What Business Deserves
The private-sector solution—unionization—is usually preferable to regulation. But the business lobby hates unions more than big government.
July 1, 2022
Julian Epp
The Increasingly Sad Tweets of Jeff Bezos
The billionaire union-buster’s quest to ape Elon Musk has been a cringey, slow-motion train wreck.
May 4, 2021
Amy Littlefield
The Rise of the Corporate-Catholic “Zombie Hospital”
A labor fight at Saint Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts reveals how massive health systems use weak religious affiliations as cover for toxic practices, from unions to reproductive health.
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