With stellar performances by Theron, Sissy Spacek, Frances McDormand and Woody Harrelson, “North Country” is based on a groundbreaking lawsuit brought by women miners at Minnesota’s Eveleth Mines in ...

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Starbucks workers and their supporters negotiate with a police officer outside of a Starbucks retail location during a strike and rally organized by Starbucks Workers United in Seattle on March 11 ...

More than 1,000 Starbucks baristas at 75 U.S. stores have gone on strike since Sunday to protest a new company dress code, a union representing the coffee giant's workers said Wednesday. Starbucks ...

In late December, baristas went on the largest strike in Starbucks history as 5,000 baristas shut down more than 300 stores nationwide, including Seattle. Related on MyNorthwest: ...

SEATTLE — A nationwide strike against Starbucks is now in its fifth day. Across the country Starbucks employee say they want higher wages and back pay they say the company owes them. The ...

A rolling strike of Starbucks baristas has grown since kicking off Friday to include about 300 of the coffee giant’s shops across the U.S., according to the union organizing the work stoppage.

The Seattle-based company and Starbucks Workers United, the union representing workers at 525 stores across the country, offered conflicting tallies of the number of locations impacted.

Starbucks said Monday that about 60 stores nationwide were closed due to the strike, but stressed that that the "overwhelming majority" of its more than 10,000 U.S. locations remain unaffected.

Getty Images Overall, Seattle-based Starbucks operates more than 11,000 stores in the US, employing about 200,000 workers. The company has so far rejected union demands as exorbitant.

The strike began Friday at stores in the Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago areas and will end on Tuesday. By Noam Scheiber Workers picketing at a Starbucks in the Edgewater neighborhood in Chicago ...

Starbucks worker and organizing committee member Alison Guerrin, center, engages in chants while striking at the Starbucks at Ridge Avenue and Clark Street in Chicago on Dec. 24, 2024.