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Arts & Life

Casual Friday with Jas Keimig and Andrew Walsh

This week, some teachers and students started a new school year. Others are on still trying to negotiate labor agreements with districts. The rest of us are debating what it really means to “quiet quit” your job. And just in case you want to get judgy on the internet, Pumpkin Spice season is officially here. Cue the hot takes. We unpack it all with The Stranger’s Jas Keimig and podcast host Andrew Walsh.
Jeannie Yandel

Clare McGrane
National

Starbucks must rehire 7 Memphis employees who supported a union, a judge says

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

Casual Friday with Naomi Ishisaka and Geraldine DeRuiter

This week neighbors at 96th and Aurora set up some garden beds after the city swept an encampment. Amazon is inching closer to becoming a health giant. And a new lawsuit against Starbucks claims… that mango refresher...might not have mango.
Patricia Murphy

Brandi Fullwood
Business

More Starbucks' closures could be coming. Is it about safety or union busting?

When Starbucks announced last week that that it was closing 16 stores due to what the company described as safety concerns, labor organizers at Starbucks Workers United said they spied a union busting strategy playing out.
Libby Denkmann

Noel Gasca
Business

As Starbucks closes stores, Seattle workers claim union-busting

‘Starbucks will tell you it's all about safety. But a lot of workers are second-guessing that, as are customers who frequent the shops.’
Paige Browning

Kim Malcolm
Business

Regulars react to their Starbucks closing

Five Starbucks locations in Seattle are set to close this month. The company says due to a recent increase in crime, the locations are no longer safe for employees.
Casey Martin
Business

The barista uprising: Coffee shop workers ignite a union renewal

Baristas at Starbucks as well as independently owned coffeehouses have driven a surge in union organizing. They see their activism as benefiting not just themselves, but working people broadly.
Andrea Hsu
National

Starbucks union in Ithaca protests store's closure and calls for a boycott

The decision to close the store on College Avenue has left workers with less than a week's notice and resulted in them calling for a boycott of other Starbucks stores around the city.
Shruti Rajkumar
Business

Starbucks notches legal win in battle against union organizers

A federal judge in Arizona ruled that Starbucks did not have to reinstate or give accommodations to three employees who claim they were retaliated against for organizing a union.
Jacqueline GaNun
Business

Trader Joe's workers in Massachusetts file to create chain's first union

Employees at a Trader Joe's in Hadley, Mass., have filed to hold a union election. If the vote is successful, it will create the first union in the nationwide chain.
Jacqueline GaNun

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