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Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) has a birthday on Friday, and is holding ten rallies across the country to celebrate with the help of its parent union,…
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On August 1, Melissa Morris, a manager of a Starbucks location in Anderson, South Carolina, accused unionized workers at her store of kidnapping and assaulting her during…
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On Tuesday morning, 10 workers at Starbucks’ upscale Reserve Roastery in Manhattan, New York walked off the job, alleging unsanitary work conditions including bed bugs…
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At midnight on August 8, the Boston Police Department received an anonymous call telling them to show up to a Starbucks on strike on the…
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The recent wave of Starbucks workers seeking to join a union shares many characteristics of a mass movement. With union drives now reaching more than…
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After enduring months of anti-union attacks and stalling on bargaining, Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) attempted to seize momentum back from Starbucks yesterday. Baristas held a…
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Starbucks’s continuing efforts to stop a year-long union drive at its coffee shops in the United States is in full steam. Nearly one hundred workers,…
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After 1,500 hours on the picket line, Starbucks workers at a store on Boston University’s campus ended their strike last Wednesday, declaring victory. Their manager…
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The story of organized labor in the South is well known. The region has some of the lowest rates of unionization in the country. South…