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We also at The Real News spoke with a worker at Heine Brothers’ coffee in Louisville, Kentucky, where multiple stores, I believe, voted to unionize, and the most vocally pro-union store was shut down last month, in June. It announced 16 more closures, I think last week, including some unionized stores. But Starbucks is not just closing stores in Ithaca. I would call it a very clear act of retaliation.

Over at The Real News Network, I interviewed iron workers in Illinois at G &D Integrated who unionized and then had their plant closed in a suspected act of retaliation. We just had a worker from Starbucks in Ithaca whose store was also closed after they unionized. And as listeners of this show know, this is not an isolated incident. And then we got word this past week that Chipotle decided to permanently close the store. And it was really an incredible achievement. I’m sure that y’all have been hearing about, at first, the exciting news of Brandi’s store, the Chipotle store in Augusta, Maine, making history as the first Chipotle store to unionize. So as y’all heard, we’ve got Brandi McNease on for a very important and urgent mini cast this week. Brought to you in partnership with In These Times magazine and The Real News Network, produced by Jules Taylor, and made possible by the support of listeners like you. Well, welcome everyone to another episode of Working People, a podcast about the lives, jobs, dreams, and struggles of the working class today. I am a crew member at the Augusta Maine Chipotle and the organizer of Chipotle United.

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Mike Pomranz, Food & Wine, “ Chipotle Closes Store That Voted to Form Chain’s First Union, Citing Staffing Issues“.

Noam Scheiber, The New York Times, “ Chipotle Closes a Maine Store, and Workers Say It’s Because of a Union Drive“.Chipotle United website and Twitter page.PETITION: Tell Chipotle CEO to Re-Open Augusta!.In this extended mini-cast, we talk with Brandi McNease, a worker-organizer at the Augusta Chipotle location and a founding member of Chipotle United. “By closing the Augusta store,” Jeffrey Neil Young, a lawyer representing the Chipotle workers, told The New York Times, “it’s signaling to Chipotle workers elsewhere who are involved in or contemplating nascent organizational drives that if you organize, you might be out of job.” But workers are refusing to be bullied and silenced by the company, and they are fighting back. The Chipotle store closure coincides with a broader, aggressive escalation of anti-union actions taken by other employers who have also recently closed stores and production plants where workers were organizing, including multiple Starbucks locations across the US, Heine Brothers’ Coffee in Kentucky, Amy’s Kitchen in California, and G &D Integrated, LLC, in Illinois. While spokespeople for the fast-casual dining giant deny that the closure is related to union organizing activity, workers and their supporters say the drastic move is a clear act of retaliation and “union busting 101.” Then, on Tuesday, July 19, Chipotle announced that it would be permanently closing the Augusta location. On June 22 of this year, workers at a Chipotle location in Augusta, Maine, made history by becoming the first store in the US to file for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board.