Tag: Starbucks

Video produced and edited by Jordan Zakarin and Josh Hirschfeld Kroen Starbucks is firing union leaders during elections for increasingly preposterous reasons. One union leader…

by Jordan Zakarin The National Labor Relations Board has filed a major national lawsuit against Starbucks, charging that the company’s employee handbook imposes "overly-broad and…

by Jordan Zakarin Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz violated federal law when he promised to provide new benefits only to non-unionizing employees, a labor law expert…

We got an inside look into the conversation between Bernie Sanders and unionizing Starbucks workers. Workers opened up about Starbucks' abusive workplace and sinister union-busting…

by Jordan Zakarin Amid a growing union drive, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz last week implored the company's local and regional managers to more actively intervene…

Shortly after Buffalo-area stores won their union elections, Starbucks stores in Richmond, Virginia, began their unionization journey. On Tuesday, Starbucks workers pulled off a stunning…

By Jordan Zakarin In mid-to-late January, Alyssa Sanchez asked her manager at a Phoenix, AZ Starbucks if she could modestly scale back her work schedule.…

Daniela Griep has worked at Starbucks for twenty year at seven different stores. She's furious at Howard Schultz's anti-union rhetoric and has a message for…

By Jordan Zakarin Tensions flared during a meeting between Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and workers in Long Beach, CA on Friday, closing out a tumultuous…

By Jordan Zakarin Starbucks fired another outspoken union leader in the Buffalo, NY market on Friday, continuing a purge of key members of Starbucks Workers…

By Jordan Zakarin Starbucks on Monday fired a Phoenix-based barista and union leader named Laila Dalton, an act of retaliation that caps two months of…

The biggest labor story in America right now isn’t getting the attention it deserves. Starbucks, America’s biggest coffee chain, is engaged in illegal activities on…