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Since last fall, the union effort has increased its capacity to exert pressure on the corporate mega-giant—including in a March 22 national strike.

A Valentine’s Day picket at more than one hundred unionized Starbucks stores shows that discontent with the company is still brewing.

MINNEAPOLIS—Starbucks workers made local history on Sunday and Monday, shutting down their store at 47th and Cedar Avenues in South Minneapolis in a surprise two-day strike.

GREENVILLE, S.C. and CARBONDALE, Ill.—A Starbucks Workers United unionizing win, 8-1, in the most anti-union state in the U.S., South Carolina, “will give a lot of hope” to other organizing drives there, a top Carolinian labor historian, Kerry Taylor, says.

Jen Lenz is an employee at the Campustown Starbucks store in Peoria, Ill. In the article below, she shares a first-hand account of how workers successfully organized their workplace despite fierce union-busting and divisive tactics on the part of the coffee bosses.