Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending June 16th
Corporate policy, or local managers gone rogue?
This week in coffee:
As the rightwing backlash to LGBTQ+ rights in the United States continues, some Starbucks workers have been told they can’t decorate their stores for Pride Month. Managers have even removed already-hung flags, although Starbucks denies that the moves are corporate policy. The union, meanwhile, calls them “a clear continuation of Starbucks’ anti-union campaign to intimidate workers.”
Nordic Approach, is the latest specialty coffee importer to be acquired by a billion-dollar multinational after its takeover by Neumann Kaffee Gruppe.
Workers at three Peet’s Coffee locations in Berkeley and Oakland, California, have filed for union elections citing “wage stagnation, understaffing, and unsafe working conditions.”
And Starbucks wants to green its milk supply chain, although it’s kinda hard when dairy is such a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Read the whole Roundup over at Fresh Cup Magazine:
I’ll be back with a new article this Friday, but until then here’s Merlin looking upset about being woken up from a nap:
