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Union Organizing Is Exploding in This Unlikely City

LOUISVILLE, KY — In the heart of one of the South’s most ardent right-to-work states, workers are leading a wave of union organizing.  Employees in…

Starbucks Walks Out of Contract Negotiations With the Union

After months of delays, the first day of collective bargaining between Starbucks and Starbucks Workers United ended before negotiations even began. Representatives for the Seattle-based…

EXCLUSIVE: Starbucks to End Covid Pay, Deny Union Workers New Benefits

Starbucks will announce on Monday that it is ending its long-standing Covid pay policies, according to documents obtained by More Perfect Union. The company will…
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Amazon Worker Target & Fired For Supporting The Union

Produced and edited by Jordan Zakarin and Megan Herschlein Amazon’s illegal union-busting has hit a new low. In June, Sharon Bogat-Weathley, a pro-union worker at…

Starbucks Workers Expose The Corporation’s “Progressive” Benefits

Produced and edited by Jordan Zakarin and Ian McKenna Starbucks brags about offering health insurance to workers. But workers say the plans are unaffordable. Some…

Starbucks Scatters, Abandons Union Workers With More Store Closings

by Jordan Zakarin Starbucks is closing 16 stores throughout the country, including two stores with unionized workforces and another awaiting election results. The company cited…

Starbucks Fires Union Leader for Being Late Once in Her Five Years on the Job

by Jordan Zakarin Less than a week after her store in Buffalo won its union election, Starbucks has fired lead union organizer Victoria Conklin in…

Starbucks’ New ‘Heritage Market’ Could Be a New Union-Busting Ploy, Workers Warn

by Jordan Zakarin Starbucks is forcing out most of the staff at several of its flagship Seattle stores, a stunning shakeup that some workers believe…

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Starbucks Memo Instructs Managers to Lie About Pay, Benefits

by Jordan Zakarin Starbucks corporate management is instructing store and regional managers to lie about wages and benefits to workers across the country.  An internal…
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Starbucks Closes Ithaca Store in Retaliation for Unionizing

Video produced and edited by Jordan Zakarin and Josh Hirschfeld-Kroen A Starbucks in Ithaca, NY has been open for 17 years. It was the busiest…

Howard Schultz Says Starbucks Will Never Engage With Union

by Jordan Zakarin Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has no plans to ever negotiate in good faith with Starbucks Workers United, the billionaire said Thursday. The…

Starbucks Investors Demand the Company Stop Union-Busting as Stock Plummets

Video edited by Ian McKenna Starbucks stock has plummeted 31% since the company started its aggressive anti-union campaign. Major Starbucks investors, led by Trillium Asset…