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Still grappling with staff shortages, Seattle area restaurants get creative

Holiday parties seem to be in full swing after a three-year hiatus during Covid — many of them taking place in restaurants. While it’s good news for businesses, staffing is still an issue for the hospitality sector.
Ruby de Luna
Business

It was a big year for labor in Seattle

Strikes, layoffs, worker shortages. There’s been a lot going on in the labor market this year. And unemployment has stayed low which means there’s work out there for job seekers. KUOW’s labor and economy reporter Monica Nickelsburg talks us through some of Seattle’s top labor stories of 2023.
Patricia Murphy

Jennie Cecil Moore
Business

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.
Paige Browning
Business

Boeing asks Commercial Airplanes workers to return to office 5 days a week

Corporate workers for Boeing Commercial Airplanes will soon be expected to commute to the office five days a week, in one of the most sweeping in-person mandates from a big Seattle-area employer so far.
Monica Nickelsburg
Business

Microsoft embraces unions with partnership on AI

Microsoft broke with its tech industry peers Monday by announcing a new partnership with the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest federation of unions.
Monica Nickelsburg
The second shift: Child care crisis forces families into grueling schedules
Monica Nickelsburg
Business

Starbucks workers take to the picket line in Seattle and across U.S.

Starbucks’ signature holiday drinks may come with a shot of guilt today for customers sympathetic to the labor movement.
Monica Nickelsburg
National

Thousands of Starbucks workers go on a one-day strike on one of chain's busiest days

Workers at more than 200 U.S. Starbucks locations walked off the job Thursday in what organizers said was the largest strike yet in the two-year-old effort to unionize the company's stores.
The Associated Press
Business

Labor shortages are here to stay

If you find you’re waiting longer for your coffee, you’re probably not alone. There’s fewer workers to get things done. And that’s something that’s happening on a larger scale. We’re seeing a shift in workers entering and leaving the workforce. UW Public Policy professor Jacob Vigdor is here to explain.
Patricia Murphy

Jennie Cecil Moore
Week in Review: Election, Starbucks, and ferries

Host Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with The Stranger’s Vivian McCall, Puget Sound Business Journal’s Alex Halverson, and KUOW’s David Hyde.
Bill Radke

Kevin Kniestedt

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