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Ridgewood NJ, in recent years, unionization efforts at major companies like Starbucks, Amazon, and Costco have made headlines, sparking debates about the future of labor movements in America. However, the reality is that private-sector union membership has reached an all-time low—just 5.9% in 2024.
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Ridgewood NJ, change has been brewing at Starbucks for some time. Amid internal power struggles, a persistent sales slump, and activist investor campaigns, the Seattle-based coffee giant is now navigating a new challenge: a sudden CEO replacement that’s making waves globally.
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Ridgewood NJ, where’s a cop when you need one? Seemingly never stationed outside of the Ridgewood Starbucks drive-through on Franklin Ave, where drivers routinely cause near misses by making prohibited left turns into and out of the facility’s drive-through lane. A few years back, orange & white striped traffic stanchions prevented those unlawful left turn turns from happening. Why were they removed?
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Ridgewood NJ, on Tuesday, Starbucks announced its intention to engage in discussions with the Workers United union regarding bargaining agreements and union organizing.
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Succasunna NJ, with a 17-4 vote, workers at the Succasunna Starbucks store, located in Morris County at 401 Route 10, in the Succasunna and Ledgewood sections of Roxbury, voted to unionize, making it the fifth store in the State of New Jersey to do so.
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Ridgewood NJ, 12,000-15,000 swarming honeybees forced the temporary closure of Ridgewood, New Jersey’s main business thoroughfare on Monday afternoon, 05/08. A Starbucks patron telephoned Ridgewood Police to report the potentially dangerous situation. Police officers who arrived on the scene then contacted local beekeeper Frank Mortimer, who responded to the location and recommended the swarm be removed from its perch 30 feet up a tree. A tower ladder truck from Ridgewood Fire Department was dispatched to safely hoist beekeeper Mortimer up to the swarm. Although he was able to remove all of the bees within about 30 minutes, an unprotected firefighter who accompanied him had to retreat from the tower ladder after being stung over a dozen times. Mortimer’s wife Sophie and his daughter Svea also responded to the location. They both assisted him once the bees were safely contained. Reportedly, Mortimer planned on relocating the 12,000-15,000 bees to a secure location in Glen Rock. Ridgewood Police patrol officers provided traffic control during the incident.
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Ridgewood NJ, workers at more than 100 unionized Starbucks locations struck on Thursday, one of the chain’s biggest sales days of the year.
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Ridgewood NJ, after years of supporting fringe leftwing causes Starbucks, arguably one of the nation’s most progressive-thinking companies, led by Howard Schultz, arguably one of the nation’s most progressive CEOs, has become a poster child of anti-unionism? Starbucks has become the subject of a small but significant organizing campaign by Starbucks Workers United, which is affiliated with the SEIU, or Service Employees International Union.
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Ridgewood NJ, Starbucks asked the National Labor Relations Board to suspend all mail-in ballot union elections nationwide, alleging misconduct in the voting process by the board’s personnel and the union organizing its baristas.
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Ridgewood NJ, Starbucks will close 16 U.S. stores , two in the East Coast but mostly on the West Coast, by the end of July because of safety concerns, according to the company. Most of the stores set to close are in the Los Angeles and Seattle metro areas. In the East Cost one in Washington DC and one in Philadelphia .
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Ridgewood NJ, the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board in Buffalo, N.Y., issued a complaint against Starbucks for 29 unfair labor practice charges that included over 200 violations of the National Labor Relations Act. The complaint stems from claims made by Starbucks Workers United against the company in Buffalo, where the union organizing effort began in August. The NLRB says Starbucks interfered with, restrained and coerced employees seeking to unionize in various ways.
Continue reading Starbucks hit with Sweeping Labor Complaint Amid Surging Unionization
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Ridgewood NJ, more than two dozen officials have signed a letter in support of union organizing activities at Starbucks stores in New Jersey, where workers in Hopewell, Summit and Hamilton recently went public with their support of the Starbucks Workers United organizing efforts. Voting on joining the union will begin shortly at those stores.
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Park Ridge NJ, a former manager for Starbucks says she was fired from her job at the store in Park Ridge after a barista she supervised was arrested for allegedly spitting in a police officer’s drink and her bosses blamed her for mishandling the incident.
