Nearly five years since the first Starbucks location unionised, contract negotiations are still dragging on. Can external pressure from shareholders and human-rights campaigners make a difference?
It's the Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending June 12th
For paid subscribers: retail coffee prices have soared in recent years, driven by climbing commodity costs and tariff stupidity. Some of those pressures have now started to ease, and yet retail prices continue to rise. Will they ever come down?
If the NLRB complaint is successful, Howard Schultz will have to make a statement outlining workers' right to organize. He'll probably not like that.
On this week’s Coffee News Roundup: Vietnam’s robusta reserves shrink in yet more bad news for the world’s coffee supplies. Meanwhile, Starbucks allegedly illegally withheld raises from unionized workers per a new complaint from the NLRB, and Papua New Guinea just announced a new post: Minister of Coffee.
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It's the Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending June 12th
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