Pittsburgh unions prepare for life with gutted NLRB under Trump

Cas Borowitz, Starbucks union organizer, in her apartment in Pittsburgh on Feb. 7. (Right photo by Micheal Swenson/PublicSource) Union petitioning fell during Trump’s first term, and he started his second by firing a National Labor Relations Board member, leaving the panel unable to fully operate. “PublicSource is an independent nonprofit newsroom serving the Pittsburgh region. Sign up for our free newsletters.” by Charlie Wolfson, PublicSource When Cas Borowitz started as a Starbucks worker in Philadelphia, she said she received almost no training and watched a supportive colleague endure retaliation and transfer to another store after confronting a manager.& That was around the time the first Starbucks store in Buffalo voted to form a union in 2021, igniting a major push to organize at locations of the ubiquitous coffee chain, including at Pittsburgh locations. Borowitz got involved in the union, Starbucks Workers United, and today serves as a part-time organizer while working as a shift supervisor at a Starbucks location in Pittsburgh. In recent months she played a role in a Bethel Park Starbucks’ successful union election, the 19th unionized location in the Pittsburgh area. Cas Borowitz, Starbucks union organizer, poses for a portrait in her apartment in the South Side...