Tag: union

Employees of the Massapequa Starbucks store – at Massapequa Village Square on Merrick Road – have decided in a vote of 19 to 8 to unionize through the Workers United NY/NJ Regional Joint Board. It is the first Starbucks location on Long Island to join the union.

A Starbucks location in Farmingville has filed a union petition with the National Labor Relations Board after publicly stating their intent to petition to unionize a few weeks ago,  according to Starbucks Workers United, a division of the Workers United NY/NJ Regional Joint Board.

The Starbucks in The Gallery at Westbury on Thursday joined a growing list of locations that have filed a petition to unionize, according to Starbucks Workers United, a division of the Workers United NY/NJ Regional Joint Board.

A Starbucks in Great Neck, along with four other Starbucks locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, filed a petition Thursday to unionize through Workers United NY/NJ Regional Joint Board, following dozens of other Starbucks stores that have recently filed for unionization throughout the country.

A dozen agricultural workers at Pindar Vineyards in Peconic were certified last month as the first farm workers union in New York State.

The Pine Hollow Country Club fired on June 3 its two remaining groundskeepers without warning, prompting the workers’ union to file charges with the National Labor Relations Board.

A third-generation heat-and-frost insulator in the labor movement, Matthew Aracich, who was elected president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Nassau & Suffolk Counties, AFL-CIO three years ago, was involved in green energy before the term was coined.

LI Eye: The island's expanding service sector enjoys the benefits of unionization. The rest of us pay the costs.