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Analysis
2024: The rest of the story
We’ve reported over 300 stories in 2024. At year's end, we update readers about what happened since we published some of those stories.
Collective bargaining
Starbucks says it wants labor peace
After two years of organizing and strikes by baristas, Starbucks announced Feb. 27 that it wants a reset with Starbucks Workers United.
Workers Rights
Starbucks store closures were illegal
The company started closing stores, citing crime. Sound suspicious? The NLRB says it was a response to the union.
Workers Rights
Judge orders Starbucks to rehire fired baristas
Heather Clark and Gail Kleeman are among dozens of union supporters that Starbucks has fired illegally across the country.
Workers Rights
Nationwide Starbucks strike protests rampant unfair labor practices
The one-day strike, to protest a staggering number of unfair labor practices, included stores in Beaverton, Portland, and Vancouver.
Workers Rights
Starbucks refusing to bargain with union
Nearly two years after the first Starbucks store unionized, not one Starbucks location has a first union contract.
Workers Rights
PSU Starbucks: Unionize on Friday, strike on Monday
The strike started because managers told a barista to clock off and go home after she showed up to work in a union T-shirt.
National
Starbucks coming under pressure
The union-busting coffee giant sees a strike wave, an adverse legal ruling, and its leader hauled before a Senate Committee.
Workers Rights
Nine Oregon Starbucks join nationwide strike
The strike involving more than 100 stores was timed for the day Starbucks launched its annual “red cup” holiday promotion.
Workers Rights
Starbucks fires Portland union organizer
It’s illegal to retaliate against workers for union activity, but Starbucks has been firing union supporters around the country.
Workers Rights
NLRB says Starbucks violated labor law in Eugene
The complaint lists the dates and store locations where violations occurred, and the names of managers who committed them.
Collective bargaining
Northwest Starbucks workers prepare to bargain
In Oregon and Washington, union Starbucks shops have bargaining dates set throughout November and early December.
Workers Rights
Judge: Starbucks illegally fired workers for union activity
Starbucks must reinstate seven workers the company fired in Tennessee after a federal judge found the terminations were illegal retaliation.
Union Organizing
Strikes shut down all but one Eugene Starbucks
Within a week, a strike grew from one to seven Starbucks locations in Eugene, Oregon. That meant every union store in the city was on strike.
Union Organizing
Starbucks Portland closure: Timing smacks of union busting
Workers have been raising safety concerns at a Portland Starbucks for years, but the company only took action days before a union election.
Union Organizing
Starbucks union victories continue in Washington
Workers at a Bellingham Starbucks became the 15th location in Washington to affiliate with Workers United when ballots were counted July 6.
Workers Rights
Starbucks to close 16 stores, citing safety
For Starbucks Workers United, the timing made Portland's 4th and Morrison store closure a clear escalation in union busting.
Union Organizing
Union Starbucks in Oregon
19 Starbucks in Oregon have voted to unionize since April 2022, including stores in Eugene, Portland, Beaverton, Gresham, and Happy Valley.
Union Organizing
Starbucks union continues Portland winning streak
Workers United has won union elections at all 11 Portland-area Starbucks stores where ballots have been counted.
Comment
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
Over the last six months, an extraordinary union movement has had young workers defying long-held assumptions.
