Starbucks Agrees To Talks

International Pressure Helped Bring Them to the Table In a dramatic breakthrough on February 27, the multi-billion dollar Starbucks corporation agreed to national negotiations with its employees’ union Starbucks Workers United after more than two years of stalling. Union sources have reported that bargaining will start on April 24, probably in Chicago. National negotiations, as […]

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Writers Beat Studios, Win Major Concessions

David Rhoades is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. After 148 days on strike, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) forced the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) back to the negotiation table and squeezed major concessions out of frustrated studio heads. With a tentative agreement that surrenders ground to the […]

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