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Illustration on unionizing Starbucks by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Starbucks coffee union pitch is bitter

By Richard Berman

In this April 7, 2019, photo, people with the Pride Alliance Network, sponsored by Starbucks, walk along Ocean Drive, during the 11th annual Pride Parade, as part of Miami Beach Pride week, in Miami Beach, Fla. Florida is now home to two metro areas with among the highest concentrations of gay and lesbian coupled households in the U.S., according to a new report released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Orlando and Miami had the fourth and sixth highest concentrations of same sex coupled households in the U.S. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Starbucks files NLRB complaint over union comments on Pride decorations

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

A customer makes a purchase at a Starbucks coffee shop in Philadelphia on Monday, April 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Starbucks union workers say Philly should close location over union busting

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

A Starbucks sign is displayed above a store in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, in New York. The union organizing Starbucks workers said Monday, June 26, 2023, that a strike timed to Pride month closed 21 stores over the weekend, including the company’s flagship Reserve Roastery in Seattle. The strike will continue through this week and is expected to close or disrupt operations at more than 150 stores, Starbucks Workers United said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Starbucks union says Pride weekend strikes closed 21 U.S. stores

By Dee-Ann Durbin - Associated Press

Starbucks manager fired after high-profile arrests of two Black men is awarded $25.6 million

Associated Press

Pro-union pins sit on a table during a watch party for Starbucks' employees union election, Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. Starbucks is asking the National Labor Relations Board to temporarily suspend all union elections at its U.S. stores in response to allegations of improper coordination between regional NLRB officials and the union. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)

Starbucks union accuses company of stalling negotiations

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Starbucks transgender acceptance ad sparks praise, backlash online

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Starbucks employees and supporters react as votes are read during a union-election watch party Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)

One of the first unionized Starbucks moves to decertify union

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Starbucks employees and supporters react as votes are read during a union-election watch party Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)

Starbucks gears up to fight NLRB in appeal after firing union planners

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Starbucks singing new tune for managers, baristas: Getting to know you

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Longtime Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz takes his seat at a crowded Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing room where he expects to face sharp questioning about the company's actions during an ongoing unionizing campaign, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Starbucks’ Howard Schultz defends union stance before Senate

By Dee-Ann Durbin - Associated Press

Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., counters a comment from Starbucks founder Howard Schultz as he answers questions about the company's actions during an ongoing unionizing campaign, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republican rips Sanders as biased amid Senate hearing on Starbucks’ union-busting allegations

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Starbucks is debuting its ‘Oleato’ olive oil drinks in the U.S. this week

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Four Oklahoma Starbucks locations accused of unfair labor practices

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

New vehicles Gazelle are parked in the territory of the Gorky Automobile plant (GAZ), one of the main budget-forming enterprises in the region in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, on Aug. 11, 2022. After a year of far-reaching sanctions aimed at degrading Moscow's war chest, economic life for ordinary Russians doesn't look all that different than it did before the invasion of Ukraine. But with restrictions finally tightening on the Kremlin's chief moneymaker — oil — the months ahead will be an even tougher test of President Vladimir Putin's fortress economy. (AP Photo, File)

Russia’s economy holds up, but growing challenges test Putin

By David McHugh - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, about the infusion of nearly $36 billion to shore up a financially troubled union pension plan, preventing severe cuts to the retirement incomes of more than 350,000 Teamster workers and retirees across the United States. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Labor leaders demand federal help to unionize more businesses: ‘The game is rigged’

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz speaks at the Starbucks annual shareholders meeting on March 22, 2017, in Seattle. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent and chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said Tuesday, March 7, 2023, that Schultz has agreed to testify before the committee that is examining the company’s actions on March 29, amid an ongoing unionization campaign. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Starbucks CEO agrees to testify before Senate panel on union tensions, sidesteps likely subpoena

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Michelle Eisen, a barista at the Buffalo, N.Y., Elmwood Starbucks location, the first Starbuck location to unionize, helps out the local Starbucks Workers United, employees of a local Starbucks, as they gather at a local union hall to cast votes to unionize or not, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Mesa, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Baristas, teachers lead surge in strikes as worker discontent grows

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz speaks at the Starbucks annual shareholders meeting on March 22, 2017, in Seattle. Sen. Bernie Sanders is raising the stakes in his effort to get Schultz to testify at a Senate hearing about an ongoing unionization effort at the company, saying the Senate Labor Committee will vote March 8, 2023, on whether to issue a subpoena to Schultz. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Starbucks’ Schultz agrees to testify before Senate committee

By Dee-Ann Durbin - Associated Press

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., talks with reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington on Jan. 25, 2023. Sanders is raising the stakes in his effort to get Starbucks' interim CEO Howard Schultz to testify at a Senate hearing about an ongoing unionization effort at the company, saying the Senate Labor Committee will vote March 8, 2023, on whether to issue a subpoena to Schultz. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Sen. Sanders schedules subpoena vote for Starbucks CEO over alleged union busting

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times