2024 Was a Warning
The past year of climate shocks and surging coffee prices has felt portentous. Without significant investment and industry cooperation, coffee’s future seems increasingly uncertain.
From Starbucks to specialty coffee companies across the United States, the unionisation wave has been fascinating to watch.
Baristas and other hourly coffee workers are undervalued and underpaid—but they are far from unskilled, despite what the pernicious stereotypes suggest.
While a wave of coffee unionising washes over the United States, across the pond there’s barely a ripple. Why is that?
Big money pours into specialty coffee with one goal: wealth extraction. But as soon as things go wrong, workers are the first to suffer.
A wave of unionizing swept Philadelphia's coffee scene. Now the workers want a contract.