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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol has one job: Fix the bad vibes

The former Chipotle leader has big staffing and operations challenges at the coffee company.

Fortune

Starbucks investors approve bid to review labor practices

SEATTLE — Starbucks shareholders approved a proposition for the board of directors to conduct a third-party assessment of how the company treats its workforce. The Seattle-based coffee giant, which has been facing congressional and legal scrutiny for similar concerns, previously opposed the proposition and announced it would do its own…

Tribune News Service

Starbucks Union Organizers Take Aim At Company’s New CEO: ‘I’d Prefer It If He Stayed Out Of Our Way’

Starbucks' new CEO recently laid out plans for the company including working in Starbucks stores as a barista once a month

Zenger

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Schultz resigns ahead of Senate grilling

Schultz is slated to testify before Bernie Sanders’s Senate HELP Committee next week

Salon

Starbucks 'threatened and spied' on workers before illegally firing them

A judge has ordered Starbucks to stop infringing on workers' rights after finding the coffee giant violated labour laws during a unionisation campaign in Buffalo, New York, US

Daily Mirror

Labor judge: Starbucks violated worker rights in union fight

A federal labor judge has ordered Starbucks to reinstate seven fired workers after finding that the company violated labor laws “hundreds of times” during a unionization campaign in Buffalo, New York

The Independent UK

‘Old-school union busting’: how US corporations are quashing the new wave of organizing

Victories at several companies energized organizers, but hostile corporations – and an impotent labor board – stymie negotiations

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Starbucks and Amazon accused of dragging their feet on union contracts

After successful unionization drives, experts say companies will ‘fight to the end’ to prevent the next step

The Guardian - US

Starbucks Baristas Are Unionizing, and Even Howard Schultz Can’t Make Them Stop

The return of the company’s longtime CEO hasn’t slowed the workers, who are inspiring activists at Amazon and showing the extent of labor’s new power.

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