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Whether you're playing tour guide or exploring your own city, here are eight things you may not know about Pike Place Market.
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Some students at the University of Washington are planning to deliver a letter to the administration later this month to ask that it not renew its contract with Starbucks.
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Labor organizing surged last year, led by Amazon and Starbucks. A Gallup poll found 71% of Americans approve of unions. Yet only 10% of workers belong to a union, as employers continue to fight back.
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The National Labor Relations Board has ruled in favor of Starbucks workers in one case over a union election. Workers hope it means the company will finally come to the bargaining table.
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Hardcore Starbucks fans eagerly await the day the coffee company gives out limited-edition holiday cups. The union organizing Starbucks workers hope those same customers will help support their cause.
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In a three-day National Labor Relations Board hearing, attorneys for Starbucks and workers faced off in Seattle. The judge’s ruling is expected in the coming weeks. Labor studies expert John Logan is following the case and sees Starbucks’ defense as a delaying tactic.
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Coffee chain giant Starbucks is facing a National Labor Relations Board judge this week in Seattle over allegations that it broke labor laws when it offered higher wages and other benefits exclusively to non-unionized workers.
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More than 300 Starbucks stores have held union elections in less than a year, a remarkable feat. But now workers blame "scorched-earth" union busting by Starbucks for a slowdown in the momentum.
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Starbucks plans to spend $450 million next year to make its North American stores more efficient and less complex. Among the things driving the revamp is an ongoing unionization effort, which Starbucks opposes. More than 230 U.S. stores have voted to unionize since late last year.
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Starbucks has named a longtime PepsiCo executive as its new CEO. The coffee giant said Thursday that Laxman Narasimhan will join Starbucks on Oct. 1 after relocating from London to Seattle, where Starbucks is based. He will work closely with Starbucks' interim CEO, Howard Schultz, through April 1, when he will assume the CEO role and join the company’s board. Narasimhan was most recently CEO of Reckitt, a U.K.-based consumer health and nutrition company that makes Lysol cleaner and Enfamil infant formula, among other products. Reckitt had announced Narasimhan’s surprise departure earlier Thursday.