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?
Pour one out for the demise of PBR's hard coffee
The International Coffee Organization thinks people will be drinking more coffee at home, a Starbucks manager claims he was instructed to retaliate against pro-union workers, and the tipping point for massive climate change-caused loss of coffee production is approaching.
Plus, the end of PBR’s hard coffee experiment.
Read about all this and more over at Fresh Cup Magazine:
And here’s Merlin lounging in the sun, back when we had sunshine here in the Scottish Highlands.
Look out for a new Pourover article this Friday, and see you next week for another news roundup!
It's the Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending June 12th
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