Gimme! Coffee: Tale of a union unraveling
ITHACA, N.Y.—Baristas at Gimme! Coffee made history in the labor movement when, in 2017, they formed the first barista union ever in the U.S.. The development would foreshadow a wave of workers unionizing locations of the corporate coffee shop chain Starbucks. But in just under four years from its formation, the Gimme Barista Union was decertified by its bargaining unit in a controversial March 2021 ...