Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending June 9th

Starbucks keeps racking up the Ls

• Three years (!) after announcing their union campaign, workers at Colectivo Coffee in Wisconsin and Illinois have finally ratified a contract with the company.

• California looks to Amsterdam’s ubiquitous koffieshops to revitalize the state’s ailing cannabis industry.

• Starbucks keeps fighting its union, and keeps racking up the Ls with the NLRB: of 17 cases the labor board has adjudicated in the past eight months, the company has lost 16.

And much more! Read the full Roundup over at Fresh Cup Magazine:

I’ll be back with a new article this Friday, but until then it’s goodbye from a very sleepy Merlin: