Scoop: Chipotle illegally excluded its 1 unionized US restaurant from pay raises because the workers organized, US labor board prosecutors concluded. Follows similar determinations at Apple & at Starbucks, which just chose Chipotle’s CEO as its next boss bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Josh Eidelson The reason people join a union to begin with is in order that they might be treated more fairly. Then they get punished for trying to be treated more fairly! Union suppressing companies like this must be held accountable. The NLRB should funded more robustly so it has whatever

NLRB prosecutors also determined that Chipotle violated the law by telling workers at the unionized site in Lansing, Michigan, that unionization was preventing them from getting a raise, and by punishing a pro-union employee to discourage activism bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

yet Chipotle continues to be as union-hostile as it was when the Lansing folks first began organizing: as Josh Eidelson reports, the National Labor Relations Board found that the corporation retaliated against the unionized location in pretty blatant ways! x.com/josheidelson/s…

Joe Cleary 🇺🇲🇺🇦 Here’s how an NLRB judge assessed the legality of excluding unionized sites from improvements being extended to other workers at Starbucks: aboutblaw.com/baJO “an employer has a right to treat [union-]represented…employees differently” if “not discriminatorily motivated”

Chipotle's CEO during this illegal anti-union behavior was Brian Niccol, whose 2023 salary was over 1350x the pay of the median Chipotle employee. Now he's taking the reins at Starbucks, which has also been caught excluding unionized workers from wage and benefit increases. His

Following strike, UAW has reached tentative contract deal with Cornell including “record wage increases of up to 25.4%, a cost of living adjustment, and the elimination of the two-tier wage system,” union says

"He just didn’t want to be known the way I wanted to know him." nytimes.com/2018/09/27/mov… Taffy Brodesser-Akner

“I think I’m an interesting person on my podcast. I often wonder why I’m not more interesting at home... Sometimes I think, Does my family get the best version of me? And the answer is often ‘no.’” nymag.com/intelligencer/… Charlotte Klein

“The only way customers can respect the strike is if there’s an alternative” bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Leah AntiTrustButVer1fy Nylen UFCW

New w/ Ted Mann: How would Kamala lead on labor? bloomberg.com/news/articles/… “I am comfortable… with her at least being more pro-worker than Trump ever thought about being” “The policies, of course, are still in formulation, but we know the values…she sees workers as central”

“Israel’s Histadrut labor federation declared a nationwide strike beginning Monday to pressure the government to make a deal with Hamas for the release of the remaining hostages.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

DOJ subpoenaed Nvidia: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Leah AntiTrustButVer1fy Nylen Ian King

1,000 Tennessee EV battery workers at the General Motors joint venture Ultium Cells just unionized, UAW announces. GM agreed to recognize union once majority signed up and did not threaten or interfere, union says, per earlier agreement (bloomberg.com/news/features/…)