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On Christmas Eve in 2021, Sam Cornetta, a Starbucks barista in Suffolk County, New York, found out that she had been exposed to COVID-19. She…
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“Do you want to support Starbucks workers? We’re short staffed. We’re a union store,” says Megan DiMotta in a heavy Brooklyn accent to customers entering…
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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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One multinational company is using Martin Luther King Day to issue a slap in the face to its union, undermining the very legacy of the…
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The Black Lives Matter uprising has prompted strong statements about racism and police accountability from top union officials, but the participation of the labor movement…