The hearing also had a political purpose with Democrats trying to gain support for the PRO Act, which passed the House but stalled in the Senate. The bill would give the National Labor Relations Board far more legal power to enforce labor law.
The Democrats who called the hearing of the House Education and Labor Committee say there’s been a huge spike in interest, with worker requests for union representation up 60% in the first three quarters of this year.Employees have organized at big-name companies like Apple, Amazon, Chipotle, Trader Joes – and Starbucks staffers from hundreds of locations around the U.S., including eight in the Chicago area.
“They went from offering us the world if we voted no to threatening to take away our benefits if we voted to unionize. And when that didn’t work and we won our union anyway, they began to discipline us, then fire us, then permanently close our stores,” Eisen said. “As our campaign moved from Buffalo to a national scale, so did Starbucks’ union busting.”
The hearing also had a political purpose. Democrats are trying to drum up support for the PRO Act, which has passed the House but is stalled in the Senate. That bill would do things like giving the National Labor Relations Board far more legal power to enforce labor law. Republicans also say union backers are overlooking that just a fraction of the thousands of Starbucks cafes in the U.S. have organized.
But after employees vote to unionize, they have to negotiate a contract. Workers say they hear little to nothing from the company.
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