In April, Google fired 50 staffers after protests over its contracts with Israel. Forbes spoke with legal experts about the protections employees have and don’t have when speaking out at work.
Starbucks workers' allegations, currently being reviewed by the National Labor Relations Board, include surveillance and intimidation, closing stores, hiring new workers to dilute union elections, and even firing union leaders.
It took Canadian Starbucks workers 10 months to reach their contract agreement last June, and that was in a country where over a quarter of the workforce is unionized and there’s labor law advantages that Buffalo workers simply don’t have under U.S. labor law.