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One year later, a union contract for Starbucks baristas is still brewing

It's been over year since Seattle coffee giant Starbucks agreed to start negotiating a national contract with the union representing baristas — Starbucks Workers United. But negotiations have stalled, baristas are growing frustrated, and each side has different ideas about how to turn the company around.

Starbucks corporate layoffs leave a bitter taste in Washington state

The impact of Starbucks’s latest layoffs on its home state is coming into focus.

Starbucks workers strike in Seattle, LA, and Chicago as negotiations stall

Unionized Starbucks workers in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chicago hit the picket lines Friday. It’s the start of a five-day strike aimed at disrupting Starbucks during the busy days leading up to Christmas, when many customers stop by for seasonal drinks.

Starbucks, trying to reverse sluggish sales, discontinues olive oil drinks to simplify its menu

Starbucks said Wednesday that it's discontinuing its Oleato olive-oil infused beverages at most locations, as part of an effort to streamline the chain’s menu.

Supreme Court, siding with Starbucks, makes it harder for NLRB to win court orders in labor disputes

Starbucks union negotiations resume after long impasse

Unionized Starbucks stores sent more than 150 delegates to Atlanta Wednesday to resume talks between Starbucks and Workers United, the union representing more than 400 stores.

Starbucks will allow customers to use their own cups for mobile, drive-thru orders

Customers can now use their own clean reusable cups for mobile and drive-thru orders at any participating stores across the United States and Canada.

Amazon, Starbucks worker unions are in limbo, even as UAW and others triumph

Amazon workers formed their first union. And at Starbucks, 380 stores are unionized, but not one has a contract. But the big, established unions have won big raises for workers.

Starbucks could be forced to reopen 23 shuttered stores in union case

Federal labor regulators want to order Starbucks to reopen 23 stores that it shuttered during a wave of unionization at the company.

CosMc's lands in Illinois, as McDonald's tests its new coffee-centered concept

The beverage-first McDonald's spinoff, named for a six-handed extraterrestrial, seems to be a grab at markets currently served by the likes of Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts.