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Starbucks on Monday asked the National Labor Relations Board to temporarily suspend all union elections at its U.S. stores, citing allegations from a board employee that regional NLRB officials improperly coordinated with union organizers.In a letter to the board chairman, Starbucks said the unnamed career NLRB employee informed the company about the activity, which happened in the board s St. Louis office in the spring while it was overseeing a union election at a Starbucks store in Overland Park, Kansas.The store is one of 314 U.S. Starbucks locations where workers have petitioned the NLRB to hold union elections since late last year. More than 220 of those Starbucks stores have voted to unionize. The company opposes the unionization effort.The Seattle coffee giant alleges that St. Louis labor board stanley cup officials made special arrangement stanley cup s for pro-union workers to vote in person at its office when they did not receive mail-in ballots, even though Starbucks and the union had agreed that store elections would be handled by mail-in ballot.In its letter, Sta stanley cups rbucks referred to memos the regional office sent confirming that workers were allowed to come to the office and vote in person after the union told the regional office that some workers had not received ballots in the mail. The memos, citing board protocol, said the workers voted alone in an empty office, according to Starbucks. Because observers were not present, no one can be sure who appeared to vote, whether NLRB personnel Tgbw Ryan Gosling to play Ken in upcoming quot;Barbie quot; movie/ i, Z, J$ j. ~ Z2 |" m
After a slow start, China is now doing what virtually no other country in the world can: harnessing the power and all-encompassing reach of its one-party system and a maturing domestic vaccine industry to administer shots at a staggering pace.The rollout is far from perfect, including uneven distribution, but Chinese public health lead stanley cup ers still hope to inoculate 80% of the population of 1.4 billion by the end of the year.As of Tuesday, China had given out more than 680 million doses. stanley cup Thats roughly a third of the 1.9 billion shots distributed globally.The call to get vaccinated comes from every corner of society, underscoring both the systems str stanley en mexico ength and the risks to civil liberties. .Page-below > .RichTextModule display:none; .Page-below .Link font-size: 12px; padding: 5px 10px;border: 1px solid 005687;border-radius: 4px;font-family: proxima-nova , sans-serif; Report a typo |
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