Workers in Ithaca say closure represents pure opposition from Starbucks, whose CEO says he will "never embrace the union."
School officials try to whitewash slavery and the Japanese-American internment
Starbucks and its union-busting law firm are pulling out all the stops in Seattle in an attempt to destroy the union push that has swept the country.
A choice for organized baristas - if you can't get a union, buy the coffee shop
Starbucks baristas in Columbia, South Carolina, returned to their jobs on Saturday, May 21, following a three-day walkout to protest anti-union retaliation.
With unionization taking off at Starbucks, the company is quietly admitting that it’s in a bind: unionization threatens its low-wage model, but union busting hurts its public image as a supposedly progressive company.
Strippers fight for a union, and AIPAC goes whole hog
Support for labor unions among college graduates has increased from 55 percent in the late 1990s to around 70 percent in the last few years, and is even higher among younger college graduates. That may help explain an upsurge for organized labor.
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