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Starbucks Requests Last-Minute Delay in Union Vote Set for This Week
With a union vote this week, the company’s union-busting tactics have grown ever more desperate.
Workers in Buffalo May Become the First to Unionize a Starbucks Store
If the union succeeds in Buffalo Starbucks stores, it may only be a matter of time until the example spreads elsewhere.
Big Corporations Strike Racial Justice Pose While Continuing to Fund Police
Nonprofit police foundations are just one way corporations have funneled money into law enforcement.
Corporations Avoid Billions in Taxes While Funding Police Foundations
Corporations should cut ties with police foundations and pay their fair share in taxes to fund community investment.
Mounting Pressure Forces Starbucks to Roll Back Ban on Supporting BLM at Work
An internal memo had forbidden company employees from wearing apparel that supports the movement for Black Lives.
Thanks to Trump, Workers Pay Higher Tax Rates Than World’s Largest Corporations
In 2019, many Fortune 500 companies paid no taxes or had a negative tax rate.
Fighting Racial Bias in an Age of Mass Murder
Implicit bias impacts everything from hate crimes to microaggressions in the workplace, school and community.
Mr. Schultz Goes to Washington
The former Starbucks CEO thinks we all need a Venti cup of centrism.
Labor Conditions at Starbucks-Certified Plantation Deemed Analogous to Slavery
Brazil Labor Ministry investigators have raided the Córrego das Almas farm and rescued 18 workers.
Protests Force Starbucks to Ditch ADL From Leading Anti-Racism Training
The Anti-Defamation League has notorious history of racism and anti-leftist collaboration with the US state.