McDonald's, AT&T, Starbucks workers
Sexual harassment and retaliation, the fight for remote work, and ongoing strikes and union busting
In recent years, workers at the largest fast-food chain in the world, have been filing lawsuits and calling for action from McDonald’s to address systemic sexual harassment issues within restaurants and the retaliation these workers often face for trying to report it.
A few weeks ago, a McDonald’s worker in Saratoga, California, who had worked at the company for over 20 years was fired in retaliation for reporting sexual harassment of her coworker.
Read more at The Guardian.
McDonald’s workers say sexual harassment and retaliation persist | McDonald's | The Guardian
At AT&T, the largest telecom corporation in the world, workers are pushing back against return to the office demands from managers, even in spite of an extended agreement with the CWA for work from home to continue until March 31, 2023. The agreement included a loophole where managers can decide on when to call workers back into the office, with some doing so even sooner than they had already told workers.
Read more at The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/15/att-workers-fight-company-return-to-office-push
At Starbucks, over 200 stores have now voted to unionize, and workers have held over 60 strikes to demand Starbucks begin bargaining with stores in good faith, stop withholding benefits provided to non-union stores, and to cease union busting, which has included over 80 union leaders getting fired. Starbucks has denied all allegations of misconduct, while their union avoidance lawyers at Littler Mendelson recently accused the National Labor Relations Board, which has been slow in processing unfair labor practice charges, of favoring the union.
Starbucks workers hold strikes in at least 17 states amid union drive | US unions | The Guardian