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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.

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.

Business

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.