Liz Duran barely drank coffee when she took a job as an operations lead at Capitol Hill’s Starbucks Reserve Roastery. But she quickly learned the creative side of coffee culture—and then that her new workplace was unionizing. It was the second Starbucks in Seattle to do so, one of now more than 300 nationwide. Well-accustomed to unions thanks to years in the grocery industry, Duran took on a leadership role in Starbucks Workers United, even as Starbucks corporate pushed back and eventually ended up in federal court over accusations of union busting. In June, Roastery staff joined other Starbucks workers on strike over the company’s treatment
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