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October 17, 2021

Starbucks Workers Are Organizing — and Management Is Worried

Faith Bennett Jacobin

Starbucks portrays itself as a “community of partners,” not an average workplace. But now that workers are organizing a union drive in Buffalo, that warm and fuzzy rhetoric has vanished, replaced by coercion and union-busting.

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September 1, 2021

Starbucks Faces Rare Union Challenge as Buffalo Workers Seek Vote

Noam Scheiber The New York Times

Starbucks workers in the Buffalo area announced that they were forming a union called Starbucks Workers United.

June 22, 2020

Corporate Backers of the Blue: How Corporations Bankroll U.S. Police Foundations

Gin Armstrong and Derek Seidman Eyes On The Ties

Police foundations across the country are partnering with corporations to raise money to supplement police budgets by funding programs and purchasing tech and weaponry for law enforcement with little public oversight.

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February 7, 2016

Starbucks the Benevolent?

AMANDA RIPLEY The Atlantic

What would compel a massive company to start helping its employees pay rent and attend college?

August 18, 2014

Working Anything but 9 to 5

Jodi Kantor The New York Times

Scheduling Technology Leaves Low-Income Parents With Hours of Chaos.

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