Workers at the Bergen Logistics fulfillment center are organizing for union representation. The workers sort, package, and ship for luxury fashion brands. They are concerned about safety issues, insufficient staffing, and a colleague who was fired for union activity. Management, on the other hand, has brought in anti-union consultants and has begun handing out gifts to employees in order to bribe them to vote against unionization.
Kennedy Center staffers have filed for an election to be represented by a union in partnership with the United Auto Workers. The employees work in programming, education, and marketing, and are concerned about layoffs and a lack of transparency in what is happening at the center. They are also frustrated that the staff’s experts are being shut out of decisions which are instead being made by political appointees with no experience in the arts or nonprofits.
More than 1,000 Starbucks employees at 75 locations went on strike to protest Starbuck’s new dress code. Employees are now required to wear solid black shirts and black, blue, or khaki bottoms, and cannot even wear their Starbucks-branded clothing.