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This is the KGOU PM NewsBrief for Wednesday, March 15, 2023.

Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz agreed to testify before a Senate committee led by Bernie Sanders regarding questions about the company's ongoing union battle.

Workers at the Walker Avenue Starbucks in Ashland filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board on Monday. The petition was to unionize with Starbucks Workers United.

Record on this matter. they are looking to appeal and the deadline for an appeal, guys, would be at the end of the month. >> what's so fascinating a factor of this is how starbucks was strud as progressive and now with these allegations damaging that but doesn't seem like it affected their sales. >> it hasn't in the u.s. they have china issues, that's separate. no, it hasn't. and just point of fact. it's a little under 300 stores out of 9,000. and howard shultz, remember that interview, vo open about saying this company made missteps. i am not surprised a union showed up. he came back in april...

As a result, the company has to reopen closed doors and reimburse back pay and damages to employees. this is focused on dozens of unfair labor practice charges from stores around buffalo, new york, that is where starbucks workers united began their union drive in 2021. since then more than 200 starbucks stores have voted to unionize out of about 9,000 across the country. the new order requires starbucks do a number of things, including to stop retaliating against employees for unionizing, notify workers of their rights to unionize and stop surveilling employees and listening in to some employe...