The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/workers-rights/)
Starbucks is guilty of violating U.S. labor laws in its employee treatment and store closures at unionized Ithaca locations, according to a Thursday decision from the National Labor Relations Board.
The yawning gap between the industrial democracy of ILR’s embryonic years and today’s landscape of corporate tyranny reflects a systematic crusade against organized labor. Politicians and private-sector actors have worked together to expand poverty and stifle democracy — all the while siphoning egregious sums of wealth to the already-egregiously wealthy. High-profile strikes made 2022 an exciting year for labor, but the share of workers in a union was the lowest on record, a fact that should profoundly disturb anyone who cares about poverty, inequality or justice.
Cornell Graduate Students United mobilized during Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting to demand higher wages and increased University support.
Out of the 971 Black workers over the age of 18 who live in Tompkins County, only 252 make a living wage to support one adult working a full time job.
According to a Tompkins County Workers’ Center press release, the award is given to an “especially egregious offender of workers’ rights and/or the value of labor to our common good.”