By Rin Velsaco Source: The Providence Journal Even as news comes that Starbucks is improving its benefits for workers, the union is considering a strike. Ahead of the final union negotiations of the year, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol announced that the company would be increasing benefits for baristas who are [...]
By Parker Yamasaki and Tamara Chuang Source: The Colorado Sun A bearded man in an Avalanche shirt tugged at the doors of Starbucks #10857, on the corner of Broadway and Baseline in Boulder. “We’re closed today,” half a dozen workers and union organizers told him in unison Monday. They held [...]
By Summer Conception Source: NBC News House Republicans issued a subpoena for documents to the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday, alleging misconduct by its officials in union elections involving Starbucks Corp. In a letter to the federal labor agency, Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., the chair of the Education and [...]
By Saurav Sarkar Source: The Progressive Magazine At long last, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is being held to account for his company’s union-busting tactics. Union members with Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) reacted with surprise, excitement, and a sense of vindication to the news that Schultz will be appearing under oath [...]
By Alma Avalle Source: Bon Appetit Starbucks employees have successfully unionized over 250 branches of the international coffee chain. They’ve inspired workers at competitor Peet’s Coffee to organize too. The first Chipotle union has won its National Labor Relations Board vote in Lansing, Michigan. Trader Joe’s workers in Hadley, Massachusetts, have organized their store, [...]
By Noam Scheiber Source: The New York Times Starbucks employees went on strike on Thursday at dozens of unionized locations nationwide, citing what they say is the company’s refusal to bargain in good faith and anti-union tactics like firings and store closings. The work stoppage, which organizers have called “the [...]
By Amelia Lucas Source: CNBC Workers at the Starbucks and Amazon Go store in midtown Manhattan filed a petition for a union election on Friday. It’s the first Starbucks cafe that uses Amazon’s cashierless technology to try to unionize under Workers United and just the second of its kind. The store, [...]
By Michael Sainato Source: The Guardian In April 2022, Hannah Whitbeck, a barista at a Starbucks store in Ann Arbor, Michigan was fired just weeks after she helped file for a union election at her store, which many employees voted in favor of shortly after her termination. Whitbeck filed an [...]
By Steven Greenhouse Source: The American Prospect With its purple-haired baristas and its many LGBTQ employees, Starbucks has long held itself out as a progressive and humane employer. But Starbucks has shown itself to be anything but progressive and humane in the punitive and harsh way it has responded to [...]
By Dave Jamieson Source: HuffPost Workers who are leading some of today’s most notable union campaigns gathered at HuffPost’s New York City office on Wednesday to share their stories. The panel, “A New Labor Movement,” showcased workers from Amazon, Starbucks, REI and Apple. All of those companies have seen a [...]