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News Articles: labor unions

Starbucks employees strike Nov. 17 outside their store in Mesa, Ariz. Starbucks workers around the U.S. are planning a three-day strike starting Friday as part of their effort to unionize the coffee chain's stores.

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Starbucks workers plan a 3-day walkout at 100 U.S. stores in a unionization effort

More than 1,000 baristas are planning to walk out, according to Starbucks Workers United. More than 264 of Starbucks' 9,000 company-run U.S. stores have voted to unionize since late last year.

December 16, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Starbucks employees strike outside their store on Nov. 17 in Mesa, Ariz.

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Starbucks union organizing gave labor a jolt of energy in 2022

Starbucks workers unionized at record speed. But workers are now filing fewer unionization petitions, one year on.

December 09, 2022
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By:
  • Mary Yang
More than 1,100 members of the newsroom union at <em>The New York Times</em> say they'll participate in a day-long walkout today to protest the paper's failure to meet salary demands. They have been working without a contract for nearly two years.

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'New York Times' editors hustle to prepare stories for newsroom strike

More than 1,100 of the newspaper's journalists say they'll strike Thursday over the paper's failure to meet the union's demand for pay raises.

December 08, 2022
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By:
  • David Folkenflik
Antwon McGhee is one of about 500 Warrior Met Coal miners in Brookwood, Ala., who have been on strike for 20 months.

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Alabama coal miners begin their 20th month on strike

The miners have survived more than 600 days on the picket line, thanks to widespread support and anger at their employer, Warrior Met Coal. Even now, neither side seems ready to budge.

December 01, 2022
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By:
  • Stephan Bisaha
A Union Pacific freight train carries cargo along a rail line at sunset in Bosler, Wyoming, on August 13, 2022.

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Largest rail union rejects contract, stoking fears of a strike

The rail union representing 28,000 freight rail conductors, brakemen and yardmen has voted down the contract deal brokered by the Biden administration back in September.

November 22, 2022
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  • Andrea Hsu
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As holidays near, a nationwide rail strike is still on the table. Here's the latest

So far, three of 12 unions representing freight rail workers have rejected the contract deal brokered by the Biden administration in September. Those unions are holding out for paid sick leave.

November 17, 2022
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  • Andrea Hsu
Organizer Chris Smalls speaks after his Amazon Labor Union won a vote to form the company's first unionized U.S. warehouse in Staten Island, N.Y., in April.

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  • Business

Quiet quitting, real quitting, unionizing — what else are American workers up to?

How we work, when we work, how much we work – it's all shifting on a scale not seen in decades.

September 05, 2022
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Andrea Hsu
A customer makes a purchase at a Starbucks coffee shop.

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Starbucks must rehire 7 Memphis employees who supported a union, a judge says

The first Starbucks union was formed in Buffalo, N.Y. a year ago, launching what has since become a nationwide organizing campaign

August 19, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Barista Steph Achter, who led the union campaign at the Milwaukee café now known as Likewise, has worked in different coffee shops for 17 years and wants others to be able to make a career of it as well.

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The barista uprising: Coffee shop workers ignite a union renewal

Baristas at Starbucks as well as independently owned coffeehouses have driven a surge in union organizing. They see their activism as benefiting not just themselves, but working people broadly.

June 30, 2022
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  • Andrea Hsu
Protesters march in Seattle during the "Fight Starbucks' Union Busting" rally and march on April 23, 2022.

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Starbucks workers drive nationwide surge in union organizing

Starbucks workers have driven a surge in union election petitions filed with the National Labor Relations Board. Unionizing has also picked up at colleges, non-profits and pot dispensaries.

May 01, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Starbucks shift supervisor Gailyn Berg and barista Tim Swicord outside of their store in Springfield, Virginia.

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  • Business

Starbucks union campaign's streak of election wins ends with a loss in Virginia

Once seen as among the most generous of employers, Starbucks is now grappling with disillusionment among its workers. Since December, 20 stores have unionized with more filing for elections every day.

April 14, 2022
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  • Andrea Hsu
Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Schultz, seen at a shareholder meeting in 2018, returned to Starbucks as interim CEO on Monday.

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  • Business

Starbucks' longtime CEO is back again. This time, things are different

Howard Schultz rejoins Starbucks as interim CEO as the company faces multiple challenges, including an unprecedented wave of unionization at stores across the country.

April 04, 2022
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  • Andrea Hsu

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  • Business

Starbucks union push spreads to 54 stores in 19 states

Starbucks workers at 15 additional stores are petitioning for a a union election, pushing to organize cafes across the country. In Buffalo, the first store to unionize is negotiating a contract.

January 31, 2022
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
Pro-union pins sit on a table during a watch party for a Starbucks employees union election on Dec. 9 in Buffalo, N.Y.

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Unionized Starbucks workers walk out in Buffalo, citing safety worries over COVID

Employees of a Starbucks store in upstate New York who voted to unionize last month walked off the job, saying they lacked the staff and resources to work safely amid surging COVID-19 cases.

January 06, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting is shown at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., on March 30. The company has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board to allow its workers to organize freely and without retaliation.

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  • Business

Amazon unionization efforts get a boost under a settlement with U.S. labor board

Under pressure to improve worker rights, Amazon has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board to allow its employees to freely organize — and without retaliation.

December 23, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
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