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British singer and union activist Billy Bragg sang in front of the struck Starbucks in the heart of the Elmwood Village. He was on the way to a concert in Toronto when union organizers persuaded him to stop and sing and he did.
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Starbucks on Monday asked the National Labor Relations Board to temporarily suspend all union elections at its U.S. stores, citing allegations from a board employee that regional NLRB officials improperly coordinated with union organizers.
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National Labor Relations Board attorneys successfully argued to use a Buffalo Starbucks worker’s secret recording of a company meeting Monday, the first day of what could be months of proceedings against the coffee giant.
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The workers said managers gave them a week’s notice that it would shut down the College Avenue location permanently on June 10.
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Workers at the Starbucks store at Delaware Avenue and Chippewa Street in downtown Buffalo are holding a one-day strike, as the result of a union vote at the Starbucks on Walden Avenue near the Galleria in Cheektowaga is in dispute.
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All three of Ithaca’s Starbucks locations are now part of the Starbucks Workers United union.
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In a ballot count less suspenseful than recent counts for other Buffalo-area Starbucks stores, workers at the Delaware Avenue and Chippewa Street location learned they’d voted to unionize by a wide margin Thursday.
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Starbucks will soon have a new leader atop the company, but Buffalo-area workers say they’re not expecting the coffee giant to deviate from its alleged anti-union behavior.
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Three more Buffalo-area Starbucks stores have voted to unionize, bringing the total to five in Western New York and six across the country.
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Starbucks workers' allegations, currently being reviewed by the National Labor Relations Board, include surveillance and intimidation, closing stores, hiring new workers to dilute union elections, and even firing union leaders.