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Workers at Starbucks in Independence said they hope to bargain for better working conditions and wage increases.

Another Starbucks store in the Kansas City area is voting on whether to form a union. But baristas across the metro say the company retaliated against union efforts by threatening their health benefits. Plus, a Kansas patient says the gene therapy research that could help him is going nowhere fast.

For Starbucks baristas — many of them young and queer — it used to be a point of pride to work for a company with a reputation for taking care of its employees. But some employees say the company's response to their unionization efforts prove otherwise.

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Starbucks employees at 41st and Main streets in Midtown cited sanitation and protection from the pandemic in their announcement to collectively unionize.

Employees at a Starbucks on West 75th Street went on strike Saturday morning to protest what they say are unfair working conditions and alleged retaliation against workers trying to unionize. The store was closed most of the day.

The Plaza Starbucks, along with the shop at I-35 and 75th in Overland Park, filed for union elections on Monday.

Cuando Irma Hernández alquiló un escritorio dentro de una tienda de música en Southwest Boulevard, nunca soñó que un día todo ese espacio le pertenecería, ni tampoco que su hija lo convertiría en una cafetería mexicana.

When Irma Hernandez rented a desk inside a music store on Southwest Boulevard, she never dreamed the entire space would one day belong to her — or that her daughter would turn it into a Mexican coffee shop.

When Irma Hernandez rented a desk inside a music store on Southwest Boulevard, she never dreamed the entire space would one day belong to her — or that her daughter would turn it into a Mexican coffee shop.

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