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Former Starbucks head in the hot seat

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testified in front of the US Senate as the company faces huge criticism for union-busting tactics. So far, 293 Starbucks stores across 37 states are unionized

Daily Round-up | Coffee giant announces store closures and other stories

In today’s episode, we take a look at stories of Starbucks shutting down outlets, the issue of mining deaths in Pakistan, and the increasing use of fossil fuels in Brazil

The push-pull of the abortion rights struggle continues in the US

The struggle to regain abortion rights for millions of women in the US continues, while Biden makes repeated concessions to the right

Labor Notes conference reflects the new face of US unionism

The organization united 4,000 organizers and workers in Chicago to swap strategies during a particularly high point in the US labor movement

NLRB files sweeping complaint against Starbucks for union-busting

Starbucks workers fighting for a nationwide union have won a major victory after the US government agency sided with workers against the company

May Day: Worker’s struggle celebration is well-deserved after a momentous year

After a year of ongoing crisis, Peoples Dispatch looks back on some of the most important labor struggles of this past year.

Starbucks workers US Unionization spreads across Starbucks outlets in US despite efforts to intimidate workers

According to Starbucks Workers United, which is organizing workers to form unions, workers from over 200 outlets have already approached the National Labor Relations Board for a union vote

Over 1,000 Palestinians face illegal expulsions in the Occupied West Bank and other stories

Today we look at Israel’s attempts to displace Palestinians from Masafer Yatta, the approval of the US extradition of former Honduran President Hernandez, and more

Workers in New York vote to form first Starbucks union in the US

This is one of three stores in the same city to vote on a union in recent weeks, part of a larger push to unionize at the multi-billion dollar company

Amid rising tide of labor actions, Starbucks workers set to vote on unionizing

Starbucks workers in New York vote for what could be the first union at the company’s corporate-owned stores. Workers in three more stores in upstate New York have filed petitions to hold union elections as well