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News Articles: Starbucks

A member of the Starbucks Workers union wears a "solidarity brewing" pin at a rally for improved working conditions on May 1, 2023.

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  • News

Starbucks workers protest delayed union negotiations

Starbucks workers rallied at the company’s regional corporate office in Atlanta on Monday to hand over a list of demands for better working conditions at the coffee giant.

May 02, 2023
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Sen. Bernie Sanders (left) will question Howard Schultz, who recently stepped down as Starbucks CEO, on the company's resistance to its workers unionizing.

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  • Business

In clash with Bernie Sanders, Starbucks' Howard Schultz insists he's no union buster

A hearing for the history books: The resolutely anti-union architect of the modern Starbucks faces the outspoken champion of the union movement in Congress.

March 29, 2023
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Andrea Hsu
Starbucks workers strike outside a Starbucks coffee shop on Nov. 17, 2022, in Brooklyn, protesting the company's anti-union activities.

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  • Business

Unions are having a moment. So why isn't union membership booming?

Labor organizing surged last year. A Gallup survey found 71% of Americans approve of unions. Yet only 10% of workers belong to a union, as employers continue to fight back.

March 28, 2023
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
This June 26, 2019, photo shows a Starbucks sign outside a Starbucks coffee shop in downtown Pittsburgh.

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  • National

More than 300,000 bottles of Starbucks bottled Frappuccinos have been recalled

The bottles of Starbucks' vanilla Frappuccinos may contain pieces of glass, the Food and Drug Administration said.

February 20, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, take to the streets in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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  • Business

Union wins made big news this year. Here are 5 reasons why it's not the full story

Starbucks stores from coast to coast. An electric vehicle battery plant. The first Amazon warehouse in the U.S. All kinds of workplaces unionized in 2022, but winning elections is only the first step.

December 27, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu and
  • Alina Selyukh
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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  • Business

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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By:
  • The Associated Press
Starbucks employees strike outside their store on Nov. 17 in Mesa, Ariz.

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  • Business

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
Starbucks Workers United members hope to win over customers who might not be thrilled with the strike by offering an even more exclusive commemorative item: A union-designed red cup with the Starbucks Workers United logo on the front.

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  • Business

On Red Cup Day, thousands of Starbucks workers go on strike

Hardcore Starbucks fans eagerly await the day the coffee company gives out limited-edition holiday cups. The union organizing Starbucks workers hope those same customers will help support their cause.

November 17, 2022
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Marchers raise picket signs during a "Fight Starbucks' Union Busting" rally held in Seattle in April.

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  • Business

Starbucks workers have unionized at record speed; many fear retaliation now

More than 300 Starbucks stores have held union elections in less than a year, a remarkable feat. But now workers blame "scorched-earth" union busting by Starbucks for a slowdown in the momentum.

October 03, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Ukrainians visit an avenue where destroyed Russian military hardware is displayed in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.

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  • World

Russia-Ukraine war: A weekly recap and look ahead (Aug. 22)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

August 22, 2022
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By:
  • NPR Staff
A customer makes a purchase at a Starbucks coffee shop.

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  • Business

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
Scott Lucey, owner of Likewise Coffee whose staff unionized in 2020, sits for a portrait on June 9, 2022 in Milwaukee.

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  • Business

One unionized. The other did not. How 2 Milwaukee cafés were changed by union drives

A barista-led labor movement has dealt challenges to coffee shop owners, and not just Howard Schultz. In Milwaukee, two independently owned cafés faced union drives with two very different outcomes.

July 01, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Scott Lucey, owner of Likewise Coffee whose staff unionized in 2020, sits for a portrait on June 9, 2022 in Milwaukee.

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  • Business

One unionized. The other did not. How 2 Milwaukee cafés were changed by union drives

A barista-led labor movement has dealt challenges to coffee shop owners, and not just Howard Schultz. In Milwaukee, two independently owned cafés faced union drives with two very different outcomes.

July 01, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
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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  • Business

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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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Starbucks' lawyers met twice with the unionized workers of the Ithaca store to offer them the option of applying to transfer to another location after announcing the store closure. However, the company would not guarantee the workers' jobs moving forward, leaving them scrambling with little to no job security.

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  • National

Starbucks union in Ithaca protests store's closure and calls for a boycott

The decision to close the store on College Avenue has left workers with less than a week's notice and resulted in them calling for a boycott of other Starbucks stores around the city.

June 10, 2022
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By:
  • Shruti Rajkumar
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