Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending June 16th

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: