Business 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. Noel Gasca
Business 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. Monica Nickelsburg
Business 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. Monica Nickelsburg
Business 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. Associated Press
Business Supreme Court, siding with Starbucks, makes it harder for NLRB to win court orders in labor disputes Associated Press
Business 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. Monica Nickelsburg
Business 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. Katie Campbell
Business 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. Andrea Hsu
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
Food 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. Bill Chappell
