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☆ Starbucks closes location that was the first to unionize in Seattle
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN Business —Starbucks is closing the store in Seattle where employees were the first to vote to form a union in the chain’s home city. It’s not the first time Starbucks has pointed to safety concerns to explain a closure. “This is the most clear-cut case of retaliation this company has shown closing a union store yet,” Starbucks Workers United said in a statement on the closure. They lack respect not only for the rights of their workers, but for the law of this country.”Starbucks is closing the first Seattle location to vote to unionize. Last week, Starbucks workers across the country went on a one-day strike to protest what they see as retaliation for unionizing efforts.

☆ Starbucks Workers Plan Walkouts at More Than 100 Cafes
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Heather Haddon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

People chant and hold pro-union signs in front of a Starbucks in New York on Thursday. Pro-union Starbucks Corp. workers said they have walked out of U.S. stores Thursday as baristas seek to push the company for higher pay and improved staffing levels. The Starbucks Workers United union said baristas intended to leave their posts at more than 100 stores in conjunction with the company’s “Red Cup Day,” an annual promotion where Starbucks gives away reusable red cups to mark the holiday season. Baristas planned to hand customers red Starbucks Workers United union cups outside cafes.

☆ Starbucks U.S. workers at 100 stores hold one-day walkout
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Hilary Russ | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NEW YORK, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Workers at more than 100 U.S. company-owned Starbucks locations are striking for one day on Thursday to protest what they say is illegal retaliation against their union organizing. The walkout comes on the one day each year that Starbucks gives away reusable, red, holiday-themed cups to customers with coffee purchases. The workers say they are underpaid and don't have consistent schedules. They are also protesting firings, store closures and other actions they say are illegal retaliation by Starbucks against them for unionizing. The union handed out its own version of the red cups, but with its Starbucks Workers United design.

☆ Starbucks union to strike at more than 100 locations on Red Cup Day, one of the chain’s busiest days of the year
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Amelia Lucas | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Workers at more than 100 unionized Starbucks locations plan to strike on Thursday, one of the chain’s biggest sales days of the year. The giveaway on the coffee chain’s Red Cup Day has become a must-have for collectors, and this year’s event marks its 25th anniversary. It’s the largest collective action Starbucks Workers United has taken so far in its organizing push over the past year. Over the past 12 months, roughly 260 company-owned Starbucks locations have voted to unionize under Workers United, an affiliate of Service Employees International Union. But Starbucks Workers United contend the company hasn’t been bargaining in good faith.

☆ Starbucks U.S. workers at 100 stores plan one-day walkout
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Hilary Russ | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW YORK, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Workers at more than 100 U.S. company-owned Starbucks locations plan to strike for one day on Thursday to protest what they say is illegal retaliation against their union organizing. The walkout comes on the one day each year that Starbucks gives away reusable, red, holiday-themed cups to customers with coffee purchases. The workers say they are underpaid and don't have consistent schedules. They are also protesting firings, store closures and other actions that they say are illegal retaliation by Starbucks against them for unionizing. After they walk off the job on Thursday, the unionized employees plan to hand out their own version of the red cups - but with their Starbucks Workers United design.

☆ Starbucks Workers Strike at More Than 100 Stores Across U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Heather Haddon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Pro-union Starbucks Corp. workers said they walked out of U.S. stores Thursday, aiming to push the company to bargain for higher pay and improved staffing levels. The Starbucks Workers United union said baristas left their posts at 114 stores in conjunction with the company’s “Red Cup Day,” an annual promotion where Starbucks gives away reusable red cups to mark the holiday season. Baristas handed customers red Starbucks Workers United union cups outside cafes.

☆ Starbucks Workers Plan Strike at More Than 100 Stores Across U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Heather Haddon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ About 2,000 Starbucks workers stage one-day strike at more than 100 stores
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN Business —More than 2,000 employees at 112 Starbucks locations are set to go on a one-day strike Thursday, according to the union which has been organizing stores for the last year. The union says it is striking to protest the retaliation taken against union supporters nationwide. It’s not clear how many of the stores affected by Thursday’s action will be able to stay open during the strike. The union is calling its strike a “Red Cup Rebellion” and is handing out red Starbucks Workers United union cups to customers instead. The NLRB filing said that there had been a “number and pattern of Starbucks’ unfair labor practices … particularly discharges” against union supporters at it stores.

☆ Starbucks employees at more than 100 stores are on strike during one of the chain's busiest days of the year
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Mary Meisenzahl | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Over 1,000 Starbucks workers are striking for the chain's Red Cup Day. More than 1,000 workers are on strike at 111 stores across 23 states, according to the union, Starbucks Workers United. The collective action is to protest "short staffing and the company's failure to bargain with union stores," the union said in a press release. Striking workers are picketing outside Starbucks stores and giving away Starbucks Workers United-branded cups. Starbucks workers unitedWorkers are also giving out fliers to passersby asking them to sign an online pledge in support.

☆ Starbucks union to strike at more than 100 locations on Red Cup Day, one of the chain's busiest days of the year
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Amelia Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

It's the largest collective action Starbucks Workers United has taken so far in its organizing push over the past year. On Thursday, organizers at 113 striking locations are planning to protest and distribute a version of the red cup featuring the Grinch's hand holding an ornament with the logo of the Starbucks union. Workers at more than 100 unionized Starbucks locations plan to strike on Thursday, one of the chain's biggest sales days of the year. Over the past 12 months, roughly 260 company-owned Starbucks locations have voted to unionize under Workers United, an affiliate of Service Employees International Union. But Starbucks Workers United contend the company hasn't been bargaining in good faith.

☆ Worker complaints alleging anti-union shutdowns rise as organizing surges
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Eli M. Rosenberg | Eli Rosenberg Is An Investigative Tech Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +13 min

The company, G&D Integrated, had closed the factory, saying it had suddenly lost its decade-old contract with a Japanese company, workers said. Starbucks closed multiple stores this year following union activity. Trader Joe’s, for example, abruptly closed a wine shop in the center of New York City where workers had been organizing. Demonstrators protest outside a closed Starbucks in Seattle on July 16. More than 40 percent of the stores had union campaigns, according to data from Starbucks Workers United, the union that has been organizing the workers.

☆ These baristas are leading a nationwide campaign to unionize Starbucks. It came at a cost
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Since then workers at 243 other stores spread over 38 states have voted to join Starbucks Workers United — that’s more than five stores a week. Still, most of the fired workers nationwide remain off the job, including Tambellini. “The pizza place next door [to the Starbucks store I worked at] offered me a job almost immediately,” said Tambellini. Starbucks employees and supporters react as votes are read during a union-election watch party in Buffalo, New York. The Starbucks workers are really demonstrating that it’s possible to unionize in an industry where it was thought of as impossible to organize, due to high turnover and a large percentage of young people,” he said.

☆ Starbucks Union Expansion Slows a Year Into Labor Drive
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Heather Haddon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A drive to unionize new Starbucks Corp. cafes is slowing as the coffee chain doles out more pay and expanded benefits to nonunionized cafes. Twelve Starbucks stores petitioned for representation by the Starbucks Workers United union in September, down from a peak of 71 in March, National Labor Relations Board records show. The eight petitions filed in August marked the smallest number since December, when the first Starbucks cafe voting to unionize led to a wave of other locations seeking elections.

☆ Workers at NYC Starbucks and Amazon Go store file petition to unionize
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Amelia Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon and Starbucks stop Union Busting sign, International Workers Day, United Against Union Busting March and Rally, Workers Circle, Amazon Labor Union, NY Immigration Coalition, Make the Road, NYC Central Labor Council, RWDSU and more community-based organizations, immigrant rights groups, unions, and allies, Union Square, New York City. Workers at the Starbucks and Amazon Go store in midtown Manhattan filed a petition for a union election on Friday. It's the first cafe that uses Amazon's cashierless technology to try to unionize under Workers United and just the second of its kind. The store, which is located next to Port Authority and on the ground floor of the New York Times building, generates high volume but also has high employee turnover, according to Starbucks Workers United. Amazon Labor Union won its first election this spring, unionizing a warehouse on New York's Staten Island.

☆ A group of unionized Starbucks workers who were accused of assaulting and kidnapping a store manager are suing the company
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A store manager reported staff to police after they asked for a pay raise, the lawsuit says. A video posted on TikTok by Starbucks Workers United, purporting to show the incident, shows the store manager pushing past an employee. As well as being suspended, the workers were also banned from all Starbucks stores in the US. Despite the police's statement, neither Starbucks nor the store manager have retracted their statement, according to the lawsuit. More than 235 Starbucks stores have voted to unionize, according to Starbucks Workers United, following the first company-owned US store in Buffalo, New York in December.

☆ Medieval Times sues performers' union over trademark infringement
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Jack Stebbins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The restaurant-and-show chain is suing its employees' New Jersey union for allegedly infringing on its trademark by using the Medieval Times name. The union also represents Medieval Times workers at a location in California. Medieval Times, which is privately owned, is seeking an injunction on the infringement and payment from the unionized castle workers for damages, attorney's fees and unjust profits made under the Medieval Times name. Medieval Times Performers United is a subset of a national performers union called the American Guild of Variety Artists. Medieval Times Performers United on Thursday called the complaint a "frivolous lawsuit" and "unlawful thuggery."

☆ Why does work feel so dysfunctional right now? A psychologist, labor expert and CEO weigh in
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

"I'm not sure that work is any more dysfunctional now for many workers than it's been in the past," she tells CNBC Make It. Work has always been dysfunctional, our tolerance for it just got lowerWorkers are still quitting in droves during the Great Resignation. The discord we're seeing, then, is vocal pushback from employees — emboldened by a tight market and, yes, social media fervor — not wanting to return to traditional models of work, Klotz says. "Everyone is making money off of their work, and they're not getting return on the investment of their labor. To call that out and say, you know what, I don't necessarily need to go above and beyond if that effort isn't going to be valued — that's not quiet quitting.

☆ This is what Starbucks workers really think about the chain's changes to how they'll make cold brew and other iced drinks
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Mary Meisenzahl | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Insider spoke to nine US Starbucks workers to hear their thoughts on the announcement. Workers told Insider that they want changes that will make their jobs easier, but not at the expense of their craft. And a new system for making cold brew is even more of an overhaul: So called "cold-pressed" technology will allow baristas to make cold brew in a few seconds compared to the 20 hours it now takes to brew the stuff. And cold drinks are important to the company: Iced drinks now make up about 70% of Starbucks' sales, CEO Howard Schultz said recently. "I think the new cold brewer will save a ton of time and tedious work," a supervisor from Detroit told Insider.

☆ New York City sues Starbucks on claims the company illegally fired a Queens barista for union organizing
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-03 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

New York City is suing Starbucks for allegedly firing an employee and union organizer in Queens. "Starbucks continues to wrongfully fire pro-union workers nationwide in retaliation for union organizing," the fired employee said in a statement. In a statement, Locke urged Starbucks to "rehire all illegally fired workers and put an end to their illegal union-busting campaign." "It's been a year since the campaign with Starbucks Workers United began at a Starbucks in Buffalo, NY," Locke said. Starbucks continues to wrongfully fire pro-union workers nationwide in retaliation for union organizing."

☆ A judge ordered Starbucks to reinstate 7 workers in Tennessee who say they were fired over union activity
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-19 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A judge ordered Starbucks to reinstate the "Memphis Seven," who say they were fired over union activity. The union Starbucks Workers United said that the company fired the workers – known as the "Memphis Seven" – in retaliation for organizing and speaking to the media. Among other things, the NLRB asked Starbucks to give the fired workers their jobs back. "The Court agrees with the Board that reinstatement of the Memphis Seven is just and proper," District Judge Sheryl Lipman wrote in a filing Thursday. Workers at a store on Elmwood Ave, Buffalo voted to form a union, the first-ever at a corporate-owned Starbucks store in the US, in December.

☆ Starbucks is using 'illegal tactics' to stop workers in New York state from unionizing, the NLRB claims
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-24 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The NLRB has accused Starbucks of using "illegal tactics" to deter workers from unionizing. Starbucks also "repeatedly" closed the Buffalo stores early "to hold anti-union meetings," which reduced staff's earnings, the NLRB wrote. Workers United – the union that the Starbucks stores are organizing with – previously said Starbucks' actions were affecting staff's stance on unionizing. Starbucks workers in Buffalo first announced plans to unionize last August, citing understaffing, product shortages, and their experiences working during the pandemic. In May, the NLRB also petitioned for injunctive relief for seven former Starbucks employees in Memphis, Tennessee it said were "unlawfully fired" for organizing.

☆ A Conversation With Henry Kissinger
▼ + stars: | 2011-04-01 | by ( Ben Werschkul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

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