Opinion
Column: Why Starbucks has become a huge unionization target — and why the company is in a panic
Column: Why Starbucks has become a huge unionization target — and why the company is in a panic
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Press Release
Sherrill picks up key union endorsement from Workers United in bid for New Jersey Governor
TRENTON, NJ - Rep. Mikie Sherrill added a key endorsement to her growing list of organizational supporters today when the politically active and innovative union Workers United announced they will back her in the race for New Jersey Governor.
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News
NLRB sues Starbucks for retaliating against 3 workers involved in unionizing
The National Labor Relations Board has sued the coffee shop chain Starbucks for allegedly retaliating against three employees who were involved in organizing a union.
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News
Five Richmond Starbucks become first in Virginia to unionize
Five Starbucks stores in the Richmond area have become the first of the coffee chain’s locations in Virginia to unionize.
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News
Starbucks Just Fired a Union Organizer for Allegedly Breaking a Sink
Starbucks fired the 20-year-old barista and organizer just days before employees begin voting on whether to unionize.
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News
Starbucks workers vote to unionize six more stores, pushing total to 16
Employees at six more Starbucks coffee shops voted to join Workers United, a labor union affiliated with the SEIU.
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Organizing
How a Starbucks in Warwick became the first in Rhode Island to join the union wave
The day before she fired off an email to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, informing him that baristas at the Pace Boulevard store in Warwick planned to unionize, Cassie Burke showed up to work and discovered they were short-staffed again.
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