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 · Sep 1, 2022
Workers say Dallas firing is connected to unionization effort at Starbucks Starbucks fired a worker at its store in Dallas' Mockingbird Station store last week in what employees say is a reaction against their efforts to unionize. The coffee giant says it was just following its policies. Tribune News Service · Jun 25, 2022
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. Businessweek · May 12, 2022
Why Starbucks has become a huge unionization target — and why the company is in a panic On April 7, Madison Hall, a barista and union organizer at the Starbucks store on Long Beach's bustling 2nd Street commercial strip, was invited to a session the next day to "meet with and co-create with upper-level management," Hall says. Los Angeles Times · Apr 25, 2022
Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson to retire in April Starbucks president and CEO Kevin Johnson is retiring in April after 13 years with the company, including the last five at the helm. Tribune News Service · Mar 16, 2022