Last June, Starbucks held the "Starbucks Global Barista Championship" for the first time in Las Vegas. Over the course of more than a year, approximately 84,000 baristas from around the world competed ...

Like Starbucks, Walmart is notorious for its union busting and ability to hold down the wage floor, though its wages have ...

The Starbucks union says its strike has expanded to over 30 locations throughout the country, with the latest work stoppage hitting a store in Albany, NY, days after after New York City’s socialist ...

It’s been four years since the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certified the petition by Starbucks baristas in Buffalo, New York to unionize the first store in the country. Since then, more than ...

Starbucks (SBUX) faces an escalating strike of baristas in the U.S. in what has become the largest union pushback against the Seattle-based company in its history. The union announced on Thursday it ...

Thousands of unionized Starbucks workers remain on strike across the country as the coffee chain debuted a new holiday beverage on Tuesday, Nov. 18. Starbucks Workers United, which represents ...

Alec Baldwin — the actor who uttered perhaps the most iconic movie line ever about java, and also once publicly railed against a Starbucks worker as an “Uptight Queen barrista [sic]” with an “attitude ...

[Update as of Dec. 11, 2025] The Red Cup Rebellion, an ongoing strike by baristas organized by the Starbucks Workers United union, recently added actions in 34 more cities. Since the strike kicked off ...

According to Towards FnB, the global coffee extract market size reached USD 1.57 billion in 2026 and is anticipated to surge ...

A Literal War on Christmas Was Never About Israel, Either Michael Barone saw the still nascent ideological schism roiling both major political parties today coming in the spring of 2023. He foresaw ...