Category: unionize

Workers at a New York State Amazon Warehouse Seek to Unionize

NEW YORK—Workers at an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse near Albany, New York, are seeking to unionize, the National Labor Relations Board said in a statement on Tuesday. The Amazon Labor Union—the same independent group that organized a historic union win at another warehouse on New York’s Staten Island in April—petitioned the federal labor board to hold…


Chipotle Closes Store Where Workers Voted to Unionize, Drawing Union Ire, Claims of ‘Playing Dirty’

Mexican restaurant chain Chipotle has been accused of thwarting efforts by employees to unionize after the company abruptly and permanently shuttered a store in Augusta, Maine, on Tuesday. In June, the store became the first Chipotle in America to file a petition to unionize. It was set to hold a hearing to determine the union election process on Tuesday…


Apple Store Workers in Maryland Become First in US to Support Unionization

Workers at an Apple store in Maryland have voted to join a union, making theirs the first of the company’s over 270 stores in the United States to be unionized. More than 100 workers in Towson near Baltimore “have overwhelmingly voted to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers,” the union said in…


Apple Store Workers in Maryland Become First of Company in US to Support Unionization

Workers at an Apple store in Maryland have voted to join a union, making theirs the first of the company’s over 270 stores in the United States to be unionized. More than 100 workers in Towson near Baltimore “have overwhelmingly voted to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers,” the union said in…


Apple Store Workers in Maryland Become Company’s 1st in US to Unionize

Workers at an Apple store in a Baltimore suburb have voted to join a union, making theirs the first of the company’s more than 270 U.S. stores to unionize. More than 100 workers in Towson, Maryland, “have overwhelmingly voted to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers,” or IAM, the union said in…


New Orleans Starbucks Store 1st in Louisiana to Vote Union

NEW ORLEANS—Employees at a Starbucks store in New Orleans voted to form a union, becoming the first of the coffee giant’s locations in Louisiana to unionize. Ballots were cast Friday and Saturday 11–1 in favor of joining Workers United, which represents the unionized Starbucks stores, WWNO-FM reported. Two ballots were challenged, the station said. The…