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Starbucks Executive, Prominent in Push Against Union Drive, Will Leave
Starbucks said Friday that an executive who played a key role in the company’s response to a growing union campaign would leave by the end of the month. In a letter to employees, whom Starbucks calls “partners,” the company’s chief operating officer said that Rossann Williams, the president of retail for North America, would be […]
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Starbucks’s C.E.O. Howard Schultz: “I Don’t Know if We Can Keep Our Bathrooms Open”
Starbucks’s chief executive, Howard Schultz, says the company is considering ending its open bathroom policy. Speaking on Thursday at The Times’s DealBook D.C. policy forum, Mr. Schultz said the coffee giant might no longer allow people who were not customers to use their stores’ bathrooms. The move would reverse a policy Starbucks instituted in 2018 […]
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Why Union Efforts at Starbucks Have Spread Further Than at Amazon
Roughly six weeks after successful union votes at two Buffalo-area Starbucks stores in December, workers had filed paperwork to hold union elections in at least 20 other Starbucks locations nationwide. By contrast, since the Amazon Labor Union’s victory last month in a vote at a huge warehouse on Staten Island, workers at just one other […]
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NLRB Finds Merit in Union Accusations Against Amazon and Starbucks
In a sign that federal labor officials are closely scrutinizing management behavior during union campaigns, the National Labor Relations Board said Friday that it had found merit in accusations that Amazon and Starbucks had violated labor law. At Amazon, the labor board found merit to charges that the company had required workers to attend anti-union […]
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Labor board issues complaint against Starbucks in firing of 7 workers.
The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against Starbucks on Friday for what the agency said was the unlawful firing of seven employees in Memphis in retaliation for seeking to unionize. The labor board said the company fired the workers in February because they “joined or assisted the union and engaged in concerted activities, […]
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Starbucks Union Campaign Continues Its Momentum
Starbucks workers have added to the momentum of a union campaign that went public in late August and has upended decades of union-free labor at the company’s corporate-owned stores. On Thursday and Friday, workers at six stores in upstate New York voted to unionize, according to the National Labor Relations Board, bringing the total number […]
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Taking On Starbucks, Inspired by Bernie Sanders
Starbucks allows employees who work at least 20 hours a week to obtain health coverage, more generous than most competitors, and has said it will increase average pay for hourly employees to nearly $17 an hour by this summer, well above the industry norm. The company also offers to pay the tuition of employees admitted […]
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