Starbucks workers say organizing for union led to firing
Less than one month after forming a unionizing committee, all seven employees of the Starbucks store on Poplar near Highland were fired. Starbucks says they violated safety precautions.
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Less than one month after forming a unionizing committee, all seven employees of the Starbucks store on Poplar near Highland were fired. Starbucks says they violated safety precautions.
“We write to protest a recent employment action by your company which interferes with a movement potentially beneficial to our community,” say TN officials in letter to Starbucks CEO, Kevin Johnson.
The Seattle coffee giant said the employees violated company policy, including reopening a store after closing and inviting non-employees inside.
Located on the empty surface lot at 645 N. Front St., just south of the historic Snuff Factory building, the six-story Conwood II will include 294 housing units and 10,000 square feet of retail space.
The approval is the second for an outparcel in The Lake District.
Starbucks wanted to amend the site plan because mobile ordering has changed the way its industry operates.
Early tenants, such as Starbucks, begin looking at opening in The Lake District as the mixed-unit project near Canada Road and Interstate 40 continues to develop.
Construction on a new Starbucks at 3545 Austin Peay Highway is expected to begin this week. The Starbucks will be located at The Marketplace at Raleigh development.
Chick-fil-A on Thursday, Aug. 20, will open a restaurant inside the UTHSC Food Court at 920 Madison.
The campus Starbucks is also open to the public. Masks required and temperatures will be taken before entering food court.
Muggin' Coffee House owners have plans for themselves and their team.
Across the Memphis area, new and amended commercial real estate leases are reflecting the pandemic and what such a "force majeure" can do to a business's ability to pay rent.
Neither Starbucks nor the developer has confirmed it, but a building permit document suggests that Raleigh may soon have its own Starbucks coffee shop.
CBU faculty member, student under self-quarantine; Le Bonheur updates visitor policy; stocks rebound. Editor's note: Due to the serious public health implications associated with COVID-19, The Daily Memphian is making our coronavirus coverage accessible to all readers.
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A new, 2,100-square-foot Starbucks coffee shop would rise along Poplar in front of the iBank Tower in East Memphis, according to a new building permit application.
Starbucks has recently tightened access to bathrooms and installed needle-disposal boxes at some of its core-Memphis coffee shops.
Mayor Jim Strickland said the chain has signed a letter of intent to open a Whitehaven location.
ArchInc designed the soon-to-open Starbucks on busy Union Avenue to be like none other in the Memphis area. The building is especially friendly to pedestrians.
Starbucks will build another stand-alone coffee shop on Union in Midtown, continuing the redevelopment along the major artery.
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