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Starbucks employees and supporters react as votes are read during a union-election watch party in 2021 in Buffalo, N.Y. Starbucks workers voted to unionize over the company's objections, pointing the way to a new labor model for the 50-year-old coffee giant.

Economy
National

Starbucks workers say they will begin a strike in 3 cities on Friday

7:29am December 20, 2024

Starbucks and Starbucks Workers United said in February they had come to common ground in moving forward for the rest of the year. But the union says Starbucks has not kept its end of the commitment.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (left) will question Howard Schultz, who recently stepped down as Starbucks CEO, on the company's resistance to its workers unionizing.

Politics & Government
National

In clash with Bernie Sanders, Starbucks' Howard Schultz insists he's no union buster

6:50pm March 29, 2023

by Alina Selyukh

A hearing for the history books: The resolutely anti-union architect of the modern Starbucks faces the outspoken champion of the union movement in Congress.

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People hold signs while protesting in front of Starbucks on April 14, 2022 in New York City. Activists gathered to protest Starbucks' CEO Howard Schultz anti-unionization efforts and demand the reinstatement of workers fired for trying to unionize.

National
Economy

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

8:56pm May 03, 2022

by Andrea Hsu

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.