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Starbucks workers have voted to unionize at a store in Buffalo, New York over the company’s objections.

Starbucks workers have voted to unionize in Buffalo, New York over the company's objections, pointing the way to a new labor model for the 50-year old coffee giant

Starbucks workers have voted to unionize in Buffalo, New York over the company's objections, pointing the way to a new labor model for the 50-year old coffee giant

Starbucks workers have voted to unionize in Buffalo, New York over the company's objections, pointing the way to a new labor model for the 50-year old coffee giant

Today we go back to the Middle Ages to learn about the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, to find out what impact it had on labor markets at the time and what it can tell us about what we’re experiencing today.

Anthony “Tony” Flora, longtime organized labor advocate and community activist, died Friday of complications from a stem cell transplant related to his 14-month battle with non-Hodgkins T-cell lymphoma. He was 70. Flora, born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised in the Long Island suburb of Massapequa, settled in South Bend because it was the hometown of his wife, Kristina Ann Lackman, who died in 2011. He is survived by their sons, Matthew and Mark Flora, of South Bend. Flora, who graduated...

Anthony “Tony” Flora, longtime organized labor advocate and community activist, died Friday of complications from a stem cell transplant related to his 14-month battle with non-Hodgkins T-cell lymphoma. He was 70. Flora, born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised in the Long Island suburb of Massapequa, settled in South Bend because it was the hometown of his wife, Kristina Ann Lackman, who died in 2011. He is survived by their sons, Matthew and Mark Flora, of South Bend. Flora, who graduated...