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The Latest Breaking News from Workers United

Starbucks store in Edgewater becomes latest to unionize

The location becomes the seventh in the Chicago area to align with Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union.

Chicago Sun-Times

Starbucks says US labor officials aided union effort in elections

Starbucks Corp., facing a growing union push across its cafes, is appealing to the National Labor Relations Board, claiming that government employees interfered with and influenced election results in certain stores.

Tribune News Service

Workers at Intelligentsia cafes vote to unionize

It becomes the third coffee chain in the Chicago area to be part of a labor organizing push.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Starbucks workers in North Park vote to unionize

The store becomes the sixth in the Chicago area to affiliate with Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union.

Chicago Sun-Times

NLRB dismisses Starbucks charge against union organizers

The National Labor Relations Board has dismissed a charge Starbucks filed against union organizers in Phoenix

The Independent UK

Starbucks is allegedly threatening to revoke trans health care benefits if employees unionize

Truly a cruel move in the company’s union-busting efforts.

Mic

Bucktown Starbucks workers back union drive

Employees at the 2101 W. Armitage Ave. store are the fifth group in the Chicago area to join a nationwide organizing drive.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Why is Starbucks’ union drive speeding ahead while Amazon’s stumbles?

More than 100 of the coffee shop’s locations have unionized, while just one Amazon warehouse has managed it

The Guardian - US

Union loses 2 of 3 elections at Starbucks in Chicago

The votes mark an unusual setback for a campaign led by Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union, that has spread across the country.

Chicago Sun-Times

Workers at two Edgewater Starbucks stores vote to unionize — first in Chicago for coffee giant

Organizers say workers at two locations in Edgewater have affiliated with Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union, in an ongoing national campaign.

Chicago Sun-Times

Unionized Starbucks stores face hard work of bargaining

It’s become a common sight: jubilant Starbucks workers celebrating after successful votes to unionize at dozens of U.S. stores

The Independent UK

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

First Starbucks stores in California unionize, as national campaign pushes on

Workers at two Starbucks stores in Santa Cruz have unionized, becoming the first stores in California to join the ballooning ranks of the coffee giant's organized baristas and shift supervisors.

Los Angeles Times

US labor board accuses Starbucks of retaliatory firings

Starbucks Corp. violated federal law by firing, threatening, and carrying out surveillance on union activists in New York, U.S. labor board prosecutors alleged in a complaint.

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Axios

Starbucks rebukes meeting between Biden and labor union members

In a letter sent to the White House, the coffee company asked for its own meeting.

Chicago Sun-Times

Starbucks workers at LaGrange store reject union

The employees voted 9-6 against affiliating with Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union.

WEKU

Starbucks says employees getting new benefits, but not at stores that are unionizing

On an investor call, Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz said the company was investing $1 billion to raise wages, enhance benefits and modernize stores. But unionized stores won't get some of that.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cary store becomes 1st Chicago-area Starbucks to unionize

The vote to join an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union was 17-4 in a count supervised by the National Labor Relations Board.

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Baltimore baristas unionize the first Starbucks in Maryland

Starbucks baristas in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood voted Monday to unionize, becoming the giant coffee chain’s first Maryland workers to organize amid a fast-growing national movement.

Los Angeles Times

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.

Axios

Labor board sues Starbucks over claims it retaliated against 3 workers who unionized

Starbucks rejects the claims.

Tribune News Service

Starbucks sued by US labor board over retaliation claims

U.S. labor officials are asking a federal court to force Starbucks Corp. to reinstate a group of activists, escalating the legal battle over the company’s response to the union campaign sweeping through its stores.

Chicago Sun-Times

Union vote scheduled for 3 Starbucks stores in Chicago

Workers at the locations have sought rights to bargain as members of Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union.

Chicago Sun-Times

Baristas at a 6th area Starbucks file for a union vote

The organizing drive by Workers United has resulted in elections being set for two other Starbucks in the suburbs.

Salon

Starbucks faces new wave of union wins

"We are ecstatic at our victory today, but we wish that we didn't have to go through this," organizer says

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