EPISODE · Feb 15, 2022 · 19 MIN
A labor union with your latte?
from Headlines From The Times · host Suhauna Hussain, Gustavo Arellano, Denise Guerra, Shannon Lin, Kasia Broussalian, Melissa Kaplan, Ashlea Brown, Angel Carreras, Mario Diaz, Kinsee Morlan, Jazmín Aguilera, Shani O. Hilton
The U.S. labor movement has experienced a resurgence in recent years in sectors that historically have hired younger people. And one of the biggest battlegrounds is where you get your lattes. Today, we’re taking you to a Starbucks in Santa Cruz, where workers are demanding more from their corporate employer.This episode has been updated to clarify when the Starbucks store in Buffalo, N.Y. filed its union petition, who resigned at the Starbucks in Santa Cruz, Calif. and to include a response from a Starbucks spokesperson about the conditions at the Santa Cruz outlet mentioned. More reading:Starbucks workers at Santa Cruz store file union petition, joining a national pushDid baristas lose their jobs because of COVID-19 or because they tried to unionize?Starbucks workers vote to unionize at a store in Buffalo, N.Y.
What this episode covers
We’re checking in on ground zero of a campaign to organize a sector long resistant to unions: coffee shops.
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A labor union with your latte?
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