Starbucks in downtown Buffalo is one of the first places to join the national labor organization– voted to dissolve his union after filing an application for deregistration to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week, according to Bloomberg.

The employees’ decision comes two years after the company voted 18 to 1 in favor of union representation. It was the sixth Starbucks in Buffalo to officially form a union.

The news comes about a month after former CEO Howard Schultz testified before the Senate Labor Committee, where he reiterated Theses of the chain of coffee houses about the fight against labor unions during the often contentious hearings.

It was not immediately clear why the store had petitioned to revoke its union’s certificate, as there was no need to state the reason in the NLRB.

Representative of Workers United told the local NBC affiliate in Buffalo that the majority of store employees involved in the union process were fired or forced to leave, stating: … the revocation of the certificate was due to Starbucks’ illegal union busting campaign.”

Starbucks spokesman Andrew Trull disputed the union’s allegations.

“The accusations are false. Starbucks policy strictly prohibits any retail behavior towards affiliates interested in merging. If remedial action has been taken against partners, it is because they violated established policies and procedures,” Trull said in an email to Quartz.

Starbucks laid off three employees in the Buffalo area, participated in organizing a union just days after Schultz’s testimony, which the union described as a retaliatory action. Starbucks blamed at least one of the layoffs for being late.

Despite the fact that more than 280 Starbucks locations across the country successfully voted to form a union, not a single store was able to secure the first contract with the company. The NLRB filed 504 unfair labor practices complaints against Starbucks during a two-year unionization process. in a New York Times report.

Latest Workforce News at Starbucks: Timeline

August 23, 2021: Despite initial efforts to unite starting from 2019the first legal notice comes in the form of a tweet addressed to Starbucks then-CEO Kevin Johnson says workers are organizing at three stores in Buffalo. region.

December 9, 2021: After 19-8 voting among employees, Elmthe Starbucks tree in Buffalo is becoming first location form an official union.

January 31, 2022: Unionization is spreading rapidly throughout Starbucks’ in-house stores. employees in 54 locations holding trade union elections in month of the first.

February 8, 2023: Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont invites Schultz to testify before Congress about Starbucks’ attempts to thwart union organizing.

February 14, 2023: Schultz bows down an invitation stating that his impending departure from the company prevents him from speaking on the subject.

February 22, 2023: Schultz blames unionization efforts on adverse economic conditions for youth across a wide range CNN interview.

March 8, 2023: Sanders is canceling a vote to subpoena Schultz after an executive agreed to appear for a March 29 hearing over efforts to prevent unionization at his stores.

March 23, 2023: Starbucks holds an annual general meeting where the New York City Comptroller and other investors Appeal to shareholders vote for an independent assessment of the company’s labor practices.

March 29, 2023: Schultz certifies in controversial Senate Labor Committee hearinglargely echoing the anti-union anti-union messages of the coffee shop chain.

April 3, 2023: The shift supervisor at one of the first unionized stores, Lexi Rizzo, was fired for being late. The union claims it was a retail layoff.

May 4, 2023: One of the first Starbucks locations in Buffalo to organize a vote to dissolve the union.

Starbucks Unionization by the Numbers

$15: Starting salary for Starbucks employees. According to the company, on average bet $17.50.

$3.7 billion: Schulz’s condition.

$8.8 million: Signing bonus and shares for Laxman Narasimhan, the new CEO of Starbucks, in his contract to succeed Schultz earlier this year.

504: The number of individual allegations of unfair labor practices filed by the NLRB General Counsel against Starbucks.

282: Number of unionized Starbucks locations certified by the NLRB as of mid-February 2023. The board also confirmed 56 votes against the creation of a union..

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Do images still have the power to shock at a moment of violent upheaval in our politics? After January 6, Washington seems to be getting used to the previously unthinkable, and yet, even in an America reshaped by internal strife and a year of war in Europe, the pictures this week were stunning: drones blowing up over Red Square, in the home of Vladimir Putin. place of power. The Russian government immediately blamed Ukraine for this and, rather dramatically, given the murders it unleashes daily on its neighbor, irritatedly declared that the strike was an “assassination attempt” against Putin himself.

While rumors circulated that it was in fact a false flag operation by Russia itself to justify further atrocities in Ukraine, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday accused not only Ukraine but the United States of sending the drones because ” decisions on such actions and such terrorist attacks are carried out not in Kiev, but in Washington,” he added, “Kiev then does what it is told.” Both Ukraine and the United States were quick to deny this — “a lie, pure and simple,” a White House official said — though leaked U.S. intelligence documents suggest Ukraine had previously considered striking Putin’s capital and was persuaded to abstain Americans. Whoever was responsible, the high-visibility strike in the center of Moscow was indeed a big event, the first air attack on the Kremlin since the Luftwaffe bombed it in 1942. Few doubted that the consequences were not far off.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine more than fourteen months ago continues to reshape American foreign policy in astonishing ways. Washington under President Joe Biden has done so much to help Ukraine, but in such incremental steps that it’s easy to forget that the United States is now effectively waging a proxy war against Russia with its weapons, targeting, intelligence and more. help providing decisive support to keep Ukraine in the fight. On the day of the attack on the Kremlin, the Pentagon issued a new round of US aid worth up to $300 million, including 155mm. Howitzers, aircraft missiles Hydra-70, TOWING Rockets, artillery and mortar shells. Backed by all these weapons from the West, there is hope and expectation that Kyiv forces will launch a major counteroffensive in the coming months to push Russia out of the roughly seventeen percent of Ukrainian territory it has managed to capture. But when? And how successful? Will these successes be enough to force Russia and Ukraine to start peace talks?

Meanwhile, the costs imposed on Russia for its catastrophic invasion are already enormous and measured in tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Russian victims. In a high-profile public statement this week, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that the Russian military has lost about 20,000 dead and 80,000 wounded in the past few months alone, many of them in battles for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. . This is more than the number of American casualties in the decisive Battle of the Bulge in World War II. It is striking that the Biden administration clearly made a calculated decision to release this declassified information. Given Russia’s initial insistence that this was just a “special military operation,” releasing these appallingly high death tolls seems like a powerful form of information warfare.

The reality is that we have yet to see a major Russian retaliation against America and other allies for their part in ensuring that Ukraine can continue to fight. How would it look? Unless drones are flying over the US Capitol, there are many frightening scenarios, from outright terrorist attacks to large-scale cyberattacks and strikes against Western supply lines to Ukraine. Only this week NATO warned that Russia could try to “destroy the life of the West” by targeting submarine cables that help power everything from Internet access to power. Even before the invasion of Ukraine, Russia carried out targeted murders and poisonings on western soil in recent years; imagine an extended campaign of assassinations and mayhem away from the theater of war. Putin’s isolated, armed and totalitarian Russia still has the potential to wreak havoc on those he blames for his own disastrous decisions. What will this mean for the future if the world faces the long-term prospect of Russia joining North Korea and Iran on the list of outlaws?

For much of the past year, Russia’s repeated threats to use nuclear weapons in response to Western support for Ukraine understandably dominated discussions about the dangers of escalation. “Every day they supply Ukraine with foreign weapons brings a nuclear apocalypse closer,” Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president who sounded especially hysterical in the war, said in March. (This week, Medvedev said Russia should respond to drone launches at the Kremlin by “physically removing” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.) there are endless debates about what actions might provoke such a response: will Ukraine force an all-out offensive to retake the Crimean peninsula, will Russia use nuclear weapons? Or the prospect of actually losing the war?

However, in some ways these concerns overshadow discussion of other, more likely threats from Russia. Seeing images of a fireball over the Kremlin this week made me realize that, especially when the Kremlin was quick to blame the United States. Consider the upcoming US presidential election in 2024, which may decide not only the trajectory of democracy in America, but also the fate of Russia and Ukraine. Russia has intervened in American politics without hesitation before; Many forget that, according to the Mueller Report, the Russian intelligence campaign to influence the 2016 U.S. election began with the Kremlin’s anger at what it saw as America’s role in toppling the Russian-backed leader of Ukraine in 2014. Now that Russia has intervened in an existential war against Ukraine, and the United States is firmly on Ukraine’s side today, Putin has much more incentive this time around.

The current Republican leader in the 2024 election is Putin-adoring Donald Trump, who openly questions US support for Ukraine in the wake of last year’s Russian invasion. If Trump wins, with or without Russian connivance, it will be considered a dramatic victory for Putin as well – a political shake-up with far more success than any number of drone attacks.

All things considered, it was considered modest good news for Ukraine’s supporters in Washington that Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy offered more support this week for continued US aid after his previous warning about no “blank check.” ‘for the war. “I support aid to Ukraine,” McCarthy said, chiding a Russian reporter during a press conference in Jerusalem. “I do not support what your country has done with Ukraine; I also do not support your killing of children. And I think . . . you have to pull out. And I don’t think it’s right. And we will continue to support because the rest of the world sees it for what it is.”

Many wondered if McCarthy’s tougher statement was the beneficent influence of Tucker Carlson, a frequent critic of Ukraine who had a lot of influence on some of the more isolationist Republicans in the McCarthy caucus, who was kicked off the Fox News airwaves. “There is no one more unhappy with Tucker’s departure than the Russians,” one Congressional Republican told Axios. Another added: “Tucker’s departure makes my life easier in many ways, including Ukraine.”

But all the comments also highlighted to me the extreme fragility of the moment: the fact is that Republican support for Ukraine, while strong enough and bipartisan in the polls and congressional votes so far, should not be taken for granted. Trump’s return is all too real. The US course cannot be considered irreversibly set in favor of Ukraine. This issue will not be resolved until the next presidential election. Period. There are many battlefields in this terrible war unleashed by Russia. ♦

According to the agency’s inspector general’s report, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has frequently failed to conduct background checks on workers in emergency centers for unaccompanied migrant children as the number has skyrocketed in 2021.

The Office of the Inspector General visited 10 of the 14 Emergency Reception Facility (EIS) and one of the Inbound Care Facility (ICF) that were established in early 2021 as the number of unaccompanied minors arriving at the southern border skyrocketed amid a wider migrant crisis, which continues two years later.

Unaccompanied minors are transferred from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody to HHS, after which the agency attempts to quickly transfer them to a sponsor already in the US—usually a parent or relative.

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In FY 2021, HHS Refugee Resettlement (ORR) received over 122,000 UAC referrals from DHS, up from over 19,000 in FY 2020.

The watchdog found that out of a sample of 229 check-in background checks, only 30 of 229 employees had timely FBI fingerprint checks, only 9 had timely background checks for child abuse and neglect, and only 25 of 78 employees. timely review of the sex offender registry by the Ministry of Justice. Others either did not take place or were held late.

“For some ICF and EIS staff, ORR did not conduct or document all required background checks, or did not complete background checks in a timely manner. according to ORR minimum standards.

OIG attributed the problems to the fact that the agency had to quickly build facilities to rapidly expand capacity while continuing to develop policies and procedures. The supervisory body recommended measures to ensure background checks, clarification of guidelines, and reviews of compliance with required guidelines.

In its response, HHS highlighted the challenges of what it called a “historic influx” exacerbated by the spread of COVID-19, resulting in capacity cuts as well as additional capacity. He noted that the agency does not currently have emergency reception points.

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He also defended a controversial move to remove some background checks for contractors and volunteers, which he said created a bottleneck at a critical time.

“Without failures to allow ORR to quickly and safely staff new facilities, children would face even longer delays—perhaps weeks or months—in DHS detention, exacerbated by the risks of COVID-19, in facilities that were not built. for child support,” the government’s response said. “While these are inherent tensions, such denials have allowed ORR to hire EIS staff without sacrificing security measures to protect children.”

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The agency stated that it agreed with the recommendation and initiated the necessary background checks of employees, which were not carried out prior to their employment. It also says the agency is working to find “better ways to remove obstacles to the timeliness of a background check adjudication and is working in real time to issue, identify and improve its process.”

The report comes after whistleblowers and lawmakers on the hill raised concerns about sponsor scrutiny after a series of New York Times reports documented an “explosive” increase in the number of migrant children being trafficked into the labor force after they were handed over to sponsors. that have not been properly tested. .

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Meanwhile, the Section 42 public health order is scheduled to end next week, which is expected to lead to a new and possibly historic surge in migrants.