Unions

A unionized Starbucks store near the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing joined more than 100 others nationwide Thursday to strike for better working conditions.A handful of baristas picketed outside the East Lansing store in a strong late morning snowstorm to call for a fair contract.

The strike by the faculty at Eastern Michigan University is in its second day. Educators have been picketing on EMU’s campus as their union is facing a lawsuit from the administration that could force them to go back to work.

Employees at a Chipotle Mexican Grill in Lansing became the first restaurant for the fast-food chain nationwide to form a union.This week, 11 employees voted in favor of organizing with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. 3 were against.

In an unusual bargaining move, the union representing some 6,200 nurses at Michigan Medicine are taking U-M to court, trying to force them to bargain on a particular issue in contract talks.

Two Greater Lansing Starbucks stores voted to unionize Thursday.

Workers at four Starbucks locations in Michigan are pushing to unionize.Employees at stores in Ann Arbor, Grand Blanc and Clinton Township have filed petitions for union elections with the National Labor Relations Board.

14-hundred Kellogg union workers are considering to accept a tentative deal with the food giant as members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union walked off the job in early October.

The Detroit City Council will consider an ordinance that would set up industry standards boards across the city.

The part-time instructors’ union at Western Michigan University says it called off a rally on campus Thursday, Aug 26, after reaching an agreement on its contract.The Professional Instructors Organization says Western asked the union to cancel the protest, which would have coincided with students moving in. In exchange the university agreed to start giving one-time payments of $50 to longtime instructors.

A union representing nurses in Traverse City has, for the first time, ratified an agreement with Munson Medical Center.The contract includes a 13% raise…