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Starbucks
Workers Rights
Starbucks charged with extensive labor law violations
The complaint brings together a slew of charges the union Workers United filed against Starbucks from November 2021 through April 2022.
Workers Rights
Eugene Starbucks workers go on strike
Baristas shut down stores to protest the company's anti-union stance in the Pacific Northwest and nationally.
Politics
Senators to CEO Schultz: Stop your union-busting
Starbucks’ boss says only nonunion stores will get raises. Lawmakers called him out for his attempts to dissuade unionizing.
Union Organizing
First Portland Starbucks votes are a blowout for the union
Eleven Starbucks in Oregon and 71 across the country have unionized, and the number is increasing by the day.
Union Organizing
Workers at five Oregon Starbucks are now union
Workers at four Starbucks stores in Eugene voted to unionize on April 28, joining Oregon's first union Starbucks that voted two weeks prior.
Union Organizing
Oregon’s first union Starbucks
Workers at a Eugene Starbucks voted 17-0 to unionize. In the next month, ballots will be counted at a dozen more Oregon stores.
Union Organizing
A Seattle Starbucks votes to unionize
Nearly 170 Starbucks locations nationwide have requested union representation elections so far, including 16 in Oregon.
Union Organizing
Starbucks union goes viral
Union campaigns at Starbucks have been exploding in recent weeks. Workers at over 130 locations in 29 states have requested union elections.
Union Organizing
More Starbucks stores seek union
Nine Starbucks locations have now filed for union representation in Oregon, including six in Eugene alone.
Union Organizing
Workers at six more Starbucks stores in Oregon announce plans to unionize
As of Feb. 1, 55 Starbucks stores nationwide have launched union efforts with Workers United, an affiliate of SEIU.
Union Organizing
Workers United: Starbucks union wave spreads to Eugene
Since Dec. 8-9, when Starbucks workers in Buffalo voted to unionize, workers at nearly a dozen other stores have filed for union elections.
National
A union-busting billionaire mulls a run for president
A Seattle-area unionist has bitter memories of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.
Buying Union
Starbucks settles with fired pro-union worker
Starbucks pays a fired Portland barista to settle charges, after federal agency issues complaint.
Buying Union
Union label rare at Starbucks
At the 5,647 coffee shops owned by Starbucks Corporation in the United States, not a single employee is represented by a union.
