‘Starbucks fired me for being three minutes late’
Starbucks is fighting efforts by workers in the US to unionise. Is it winning? …
She had been waiting for the decision. Though she liked her job as a barista, which gave her flexibility to care for her young niece, this winter the 28-year-old had tried to rally her co-workers in New York to join a labour union, frustrated by the company’s stance on sick leave during the pandemic.