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Members and supporters of Iowa City unions gathered in City Park Monday to celebrate recent wins for organized labor — including the formation of two new unions — at the Iowa City Federation of Labor’s annual Labor Day picnic.
The decision to unionize is a result of some downtown Iowa City Starbucks employees citing safety concerns and a need for consistent schedules.
Several Iowa City Starbucks employees held a "sip-in," advocating for their push to become the state's first unionized store.
Iowa Starbucks Workers Want a Nice Hot Cup of Union Power by Dave Leshtz See the full article published in The Nation A line of 25 people, mostly college students, snaked from the counter to the front door at the Starbucks in downtown Iowa City, Iowa, on April 21. A dozen “mobile orders” of lattes…
Workers at the company’s Iowa City store are on the cusp of making some history.