The Starbucks Reserve Roastery is the biggest union drive in the city, not to mention the largest Starbucks in the world, and if they win, they’ll join other unionized locations in fighting for a contract.
Reset gets an update on efforts to form unions and negotiate at Starbucks, at museums and hospitals and clinics across the city.
GUEST: Artemis Winter, mixologist at Starbucks Roastery
Kathy Hanshew, president of the Chicago and Midwest Regional Joint Board of Workers United and International Vice President of Workers United
Bob Bruno, director of the labor education program at the School for Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anders Lindall, Director of Communications for AFSCME Council 31