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Two Jacksonville Starbucks stores voted to unionize Tuesday, following a Tallahassee Starbucks that was the first to unionize in Florida last week.

From New York City to Turkey, activists and workers seized this International Workers' Day as a moment to push for greater worker protections and changes to immigration policies.

Once seen as among the most generous of employers, Starbucks is now grappling with disillusionment among its workers. Since December, 20 stores have unionized with more filing for elections every day.

Thousands of Etsy sellers closed their online shops for a week starting Monday in an attempt to get the company to address several complaints they have about the site.

After protracted negotiations between Major League Baseball's owners and players led to a 99-day lockout, baseball officially begins with new rules and new faces.

Two Starbucks stores in Jacksonville will begin voting next week to determine if they will be represented by a union. If the workers are successful, the stores will be the first in Florida to unionize.

Artists, faith communities and farmworkers with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers marched in Palm Beach to urge Nelson Peltz, board chairman of Wendy's, to join the Fair Food Program. Peltz owns the hedge fund Trian Partners and has a home in the Town of Palm Beach. His hedge fund is the company’s largest shareholder.

One labor and employment observer said the New York vote was "shocking," since Amazon workers there had no support from an established union.

Currently, there are 150 non-tenure-track, full-time teaching faculty and over 200 adjunct professors on Howard's campus.

Amazon will face two union elections at once. Federal officials have set a union vote for Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse, coinciding with the ongoing re-do election in Bessemer, Ala.

The Hialeah location on West 49th Street follows in the footsteps of a successful unionization effort in Buffalo, New York.

Some workers are concerned about new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that shortens the isolation period for COVID-19 cases.