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Working Lunch Friday, December 20, 2024 | | |
| | | | | It's lunchtime, Chicago. Some Starbucks baristas went on strike in Chicago on Friday, with their union warning the walkouts could spread to hundreds of cafes by Christmas
Eve if the coffee giant does not meet workers’ demands at the bargaining table. Baristas were also planning walkouts Friday in Los Angeles and in Seattle, where Starbucks is headquartered. And on the television front, while the new Chicago Sports Network remains blacked out on Comcast, the cable
giant is raising the monthly fee it charges subscribers to access its diminished local sports offerings. “The change in the RSN fee is due to the rising cost of other local/regional sports services that we deliver to our customers,” a Comcast spokesperson said. Read that story and more in today's Working Lunch. Get news alerts | Top business stories | Real estate | | | | Baristas at 5964 N. Ridge Ave. in Edgewater, one of the first Starbucks in the city to unionize more than two years ago, were on strike Friday. | | | | | The 5.5% increase bumps up the regional sports fee to $20.25 per month in Chicago and the suburbs. | | | | | Illinois had 12,710,158 residents as of July 1, 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated, ranking sixth among states nationally. | | | | | Under the confidential pact, the automaker would adopt a neutral stance toward efforts to organize workers at the Normal, Illinois, factory where its vehicles are made, according to people familiar with the matter. | | | | | After 40 years, Gotskind’s Children’s Shoes & Clothing is leaving its downtown Naperville location and moving a few miles south. | | | | | He bought the penthouse condo, which sits atop an eight-story building, in 2019 for $3.5 million. | | | |
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