The Morning: Starbucks and its union
Plus, protests in Kenya, primary elections and "White Chicks" at 20. View in browser | nytimes.com June 26, 2024 Good morning. Today, we're covering a favorable development for U.S. labor unions — as well as protests in Kenya, primary elections and "White Chicks" at 20. At the Starbucks Workers United headquarters in Buffalo, N.Y. Libby March for The New York Times Coffee and a contract By Noam Scheiber I cover workplace issues and the labor movement. Labor unions have won some big victories in the past few years, including in the auto industry and Hollywood. But if organized labor is going to have a true resurgence in the United States, it can't simply win raises for workers it already represents. It will need to organize new workers and reverse the decades-long decline in union membership. That's why recent events at Starbucks have been so significant. The company and the union — which represents more than 400 of Starbucks's 10,000 U.S. stores —
