By Noam Scheiber Source: The New York Times Employees at a Buffalo-area Starbucks store have voted to form a union, making it the only one of the nearly 9,000 company-owned stores in the United States to be organized and notching an important symbolic victory for labor at a time when [...]
By Joanna Slater and Greg Jaffe Source: The Washington Post Starbucks workers in Buffalo won a pathbreaking bid to form a union after votes were counted Thursday, part of a wave of labor activism sweeping the country in the midst of the pandemic. The cafe in Elmwood Village will become [...]
By Joanna Slater Source: The Washington Post Earlier this month, Howard Schultz, the man who built Starbucks into a global giant, traveled to this city for an unusual gathering of the company’s employees. Schultz talked about growing up poor in Brooklyn and the values that guide Starbucks. The company is [...]