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News & Commentary May 12, 2023
https://onlabor.org/may-12-2023/
By Greg Volynsky
Greg Volynsky is a student at Harvard Law School.
In today’s News & Commentary, Starbucks workers in Chelsea file petition for decertification vote, federal jury orders largest settlement ever under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and employees at an architecture firm file petition to unionize.
On Thursday, workers at the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Chelsea, New York, filed a petition to hold a vote to decertify their union. This move comes a little over a year after the employees at this store became the first Starbucks workers in NYC to unionize. The Chelsea Roastery Starbucks also gained coverage during a seven-week strike last year. The anti-union effort is aided by the pro-bono representation of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTW), the group which successfully argued the 2018 Janus decision, and comes just days after workers at two other Starbucks stores in Rochester and Buffalo, New York, also submitted decertification petitions.
FULL story at link above.