Starbucks Workers Strike

And physicians in Minnesota organize

News and Views

Starbucks workers in British Columbia voted to join the Steelworkers, while 1200 Starbucks workers in the US strike over a new dress code the company failed to negotiate over with Starbucks Workers United.

As Colorado Governor Jared Polis pledges to veto a repeal of the state’s quasi-right-to-work law, unions in the Centennial State are moving to put just cause worker protections on the state’s 2026 ballot—with the potential to make it the second state with just cause, after Montana.

1,000 residents in Minnesota have organized with CIR/SEIU after the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor party amended Minnesota’s public sector collective bargaining law last year.

11 teachers unions in California have lined up their contracts, with the goal of being strike-ready by the fall.

Cleveland rape crisis workers represented by SEIU District 1199 WV/KY/OH are threatening to strike because their boss is refusing to bargain.

Today’s Win

Denver’s Labor Department is requiring a gig app company called GigSmart to reclassify more than 700 workers as employees rather than as independent contractors. The department is also returning more than $27,000 to workers.