The Latest Breaking News from Howard Schultz

Workers in Ithaca say closure represents pure opposition from Starbucks, whose CEO says he will ‘never embrace the union’

Many who switched to working from home during the pandemic are resisting a return to the office. And for now, CEOs are accommodating them.

A barista-led labor movement has dealt challenges to coffee shop owners, and not just Howard Schultz. In Milwaukee, two independently owned cafés faced union drives with two very different outcomes.

SEATTLE — While it isn’t the Sonics — at least not yet — two sources have confirmed a Los Angeles Times report Wednesday that NBA basketball will make its Climate Pledge Arena debut Oct. 3 in an exhibition game between the L.A. Clippers and Portland Trail Blazers.

Starbucks Corp.’s hunt for a new chief executive officer has no shortage of complications: The coffee giant’s crucial China business is sputtering and its US stores are grappling with unionization efforts, potential turnoffs for plum candidates. The company lacks natural internal successors after the departure last year of two C-suite…

Rossann Williams, who led Starbucks' largest market with over 18,000 stores for four years, is leaving the company, Starbucks said Friday.

‘The third party he’s talking about doesn’t exist’, critics say

"The customer experience," Howard Schultz said, will be degraded "if a third party is integrated into our business"

SEATTLE — Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz said Thursday the company might close its bathrooms to people who are not customers, reversing a 2018 policy.

The coffee chain's interim CEO is pondering a very big change.

‘I don’t know if we can keep our bathrooms open,’ Starbucks’ chief executive said