Tag: Starbucks

"Howard Schultz and Starbucks are getting creamed in union vote after union vote."

"This is a major victory," said Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat. "It's time for Starbucks to pay fair wages and treat every worker with dignity and respect."

Starbucks Workers United is racking up victorious union votes in one branch after another of the iconic American coffee chain. A young California-based worker-organizer explains why this organizing campaign is different.

"Starbucks is getting desperate as it loses this war in battle after battle," said the baristas' union, "because we—the Starbucks partners—continue to organize and fight for a real voice within the company."

Starbucks workers in Buffalo have delivered America’s oligarchs an unexpectedly solid blow.

Media interest in the campaigns at Starbucks and Amazon suggests the American public may finally be paying attention.

Baristas in Buffalo are mounting the coffee giant’s most significant union challenge yet.

Starbucks has made several pledges to produce recyclable cups dating back to 2008—but its cups are still unable to be recycled economically.

Investigators have found that laborers on the farm’s coffee plantations were working under degrading conditions and living in substandard housing without sewerage or drinking water.

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