The Latest Breaking News from Starbucks Workers United

Starbucks spokesperson said barista was fired for ‘refusal to abide by dress-code policy’

"Their goal is to retaliate against and punish union stores," said Starbucks Workers United

Starbucks Corp. interim chief executive Howard Schultz outlined a wide-ranging revamp of the coffee chain on Tuesday, ranging from cafe upgrades to expanded employee benefits, which he said is necessary to put the company on track for a turnaround by 2024.

The new generation of youthful activists are fighting for better wages and working conditions, but they’re also united in their common struggle for dignity and humane treatment on the job.

The grassroots effort to organise workers at the coffee chain has spread to over 200 stores. Can it re-energise the labour movement in the US?

More than 85 workers heavily involved in organizing at coffee chain dismissed in recent months, says Starbucks Workers United

The first Starbucks union was formed in Buffalo, N.Y. a year ago, launching what has since become a nationwide organizing campaign

In a letter shared with NPR, the company alleges that labor board personnel exploited "weaknesses in the mail-ballot election process" to help union organizers.

Workers in Ithaca say closure represents pure opposition from Starbucks, whose CEO says he will ‘never embrace the union’

Baristas at a Starbucks in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood voted nearly unanimously to unionize Tuesday, making their store the fourth unionized Starbucks in the city.

Starbucks Workers United won its 100th election on May 27, 2022 – fittingly, in Seattle, the company’s hometown. And the union has notched another 46 victories in the just over two weeks since then. It comes six months after organizers won their first two union victories, in Buffalo, New. York.