Starbucks

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• SOURCE: New Labor Forum
  4/28/2023
  

  Wins at Amazon and Starbucks Shouldn't Obscure the Hard Road Independent Unions Face

  by Erik Loomis

  The improvised and worker-led efforts to organize the new economy giants has led some commenters to proclaim the end of big labor. A labor historian says that workers still need the resources and support of legacy unions – if they commit to organizing new workplaces – to win against employers more determined than ever to bust unions. 

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• SOURCE: Fast Company
  3/29/2023
  

  Howard Schultz Gets Roasted More than Starbucks Beans by Senators

  by Kim Kelly

  The CEO's reluctance to appear before a Senate Committee was made clear when Senator Bernie Sanders, labor law experts, and Starbucks workers confronted him with allegations that he violated labor laws in seeking to keep the coffee chain union-free. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  6/27/2022
  

  The Labor Upsurge Calls Us to Rethink Organizing Rules

  by Chris Brooks

  Do the successes of organizers at Amazon and Starbucks mean the age of slow, methodical and gradual organizing is over? Can workers use a union vote itself as an organizing tool to move quickly and defeat union-busting? 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/27/19
  

  Pumpkin spice wars: The violent history behind your favorite Starbucks latte

  PSL is back, and so is its connection to a centuries old genocide.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  5-29-18
  

  Bias Training at Starbucks Is a Reminder That the History of Racism Is About Who Belongs Where

  by Arica L. Coleman

  The question of who belongs where is a central component of the history of racism, and many scholars have theorized that this collision of race and space helps to codify the constructs of difference and the Other.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-27-18
  

  UVA’s Andrew W. Kahrl says the Starbuck’s racial incident highlights a problem white northerners long ignored

  by Andrew W. Kahrl

  Jim Crow existed in the North, too, but in disguise

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• 5-25-18
  

  Not Even a Trip to the Amusement Park Has Been Easy for African-Americans

  by Victoria W. Wolcott

  On past Memorial Day weekends blacks faced discrimination and open hostility.