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Starbucks

June 2024

  • people link arms wearing shirts that say "Starbucks workers united"

    US supreme court sides with Starbucks in union case over fired employees

    Justices throw out lower court’s approval of injunction ordering coffee chain to rehire seven employees

May 2024

  • Starbucks Workers United union members and supporters take a group photo

    Starbucks resumes bargaining amid fresh wave of unionized stores

    World’s largest coffee chain agrees framework with Workers United as push to increase unionization continues apace
  • Chart of US coffee consumption

    Americans are drinking half the coffee they did in the 40s

    It’s unclear what’s behind Starbucks’ recent shaky sales – but US coffee consumption declined for decades after a 1946 peak
  • Black woman in crowd wearing matching red T-shirts.

    ‘We deserve more’: US workers’ share of the pie dwindles

    Bureau of Labor Statistics releases latest estimate of how much labor receives of national income, showing bleak decline

April 2024

  • Starbucks workers in black T-shirts link arms

    Supreme court appears to side with Starbucks in fight over fired employees

  • Pro-union protestors waving fists in the air and holding signs

    Trader Joe’s and Starbucks are helping Elon Musk undermine the US government

    Steven Greenhouse
  • Hospitality workers picket outside Hotel Figueroa in downtown LA on 5 April 2024.

    ‘No way’: US labor watchdog refuses to bow to SpaceX, Amazon and Starbucks

  • A Starbucks sign.

    Starbucks paid £7.2m in UK corporation tax despite gross profit of £149m

March 2024

  • people hold signs in support of unionized Starbucks workers

    ‘Huge breakthrough’ in Starbucks union talks – which other US firms will follow?

    Coffee chain appears willing to come to the table, which could mean good news for Trader Joe’s, Amazon and REI workers
  • Hand holds clear plastic cup with liquid inside

    Starbucks intolerant of lactose intolerance, $5m lawsuit alleges

    Three Californians who can’t drink dairy say they pay extra fees for alternatives at coffee chain and claim violation of civil rights law
  • Trader Joe’s employees rally at in lower Manhattan in support of forming a union on 18 April 2023.

    Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’

    Trader Joe’s and SpaceX are among businesses challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board

February 2024

  • An image taken from below the necks of seemingly young people linking arms and wearing black T-shirts with green-and-white logos that say 'Starbucks Workers United'.

    Starbucks and workers’ union agree to talks in breakthrough for both sides

    Joint statement announces agreement to work toward labor agreements on ‘constructive path forward’
  • a sign reads "union busting is disgusting" over a Starbucks logo

    Twenty-five US universities face calls to cancel Starbucks contracts

    Student organizers, faculty and workers protest against coffee company’s response to union organizing efforts
  • FILE - Fast food workers and their supporters march past the California state Capitol in Sacramento calling on the passage of a bill to provide increased power to fast food workers, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday, Sept. 6, 2022, signed a nation-leading measure giving more than a half-million fast food workers more power and protections, despite the objections of restaurant owners who warned it would drive up consumers’ costs. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

    California fast-food workers launch new union: ‘They have to listen to us’

    Move builds on victory in late 2023 to boost pay of more than half a million workers in sector to $20 an hour

January 2024

  • Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has filed a lawsuit against the National Labor Relations Board.

    ‘Dark forces’: how US corporations turned to courts in fight against unions

    Companies including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Starbucks are using new legal playbook against unions, experts say
  • While the coffee giant resisted union efforts for decades, the Memphis store is one of more than 370 of its US outlets unionize since 2021.

    US supreme court to consider Starbucks case over fired pro-union workers

    Court agrees to consider challenge by coffee chain to judicial decision requiring it to rehire seven union activists in Tennessee
  • A view shows a Starbucks logo at a Starbucks coffee outlet in New Delhi, India, May 30, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

    Starbucks sued over claims of labor and human rights violations in making of products

    Lawsuit claims coffee chain procured materials from farms and cooperatives that have committed violations against workers

December 2023

  • UAW workers on strike

    ‘Broken’ US labor laws could hamper union wins for workers, experts warn

  • A man looks at a newly opened Starbucks coffee shop in Forbidden City, Beijing, China

    China overtakes US as branded coffee shop capital of the world

November 2023

  • Workers carry strike signs outside a unionized Starbucks in Anaheim, California, for ‘Red Cup Rebellion’ in November 2022.

    ‘You can’t beat us’: Starbucks workers to strike in ‘Red Cup Rebellion’

    Thousands expected to participate, including actions at non-unionized stores, in latest attempt to pressure company to bargain
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