Dee-Ann Durbin

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  • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 08: SAG-AFTRA members chant outside Paramount Studios on day 118 of their strike against the Hollywood studios on November 8, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. A tentative labor agreement has been reached between the actors union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) with the strike set to end after midnight. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Success

    Union membership just hit a record low as 2023’s ‘hot labor summer’ can’t reverse a generational decline

    By Irina Ivanova, Dee-Ann Durbin, and others
  • ShopperPersonal Finance

    The dark side of the $30 billion holiday gift card industry: So much money unspent

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Mike Grgich of Grgich Hills Estate, pours his Paris Tasting anniversary Chardonnay during Auction Napa Valley in St. Helena, Calif., on May 31, 2013. Grgich, a celebrated winemaker who helped establish Napa Valley as one of the world’s premier wine-making regions, has died. He was 100. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)Lifestyle

    Mike Grgich, Croatian immigrant who put Napa Valley on the world’s wine map in the ‘Judgement of Paris’, dies at 100

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • File – Advocates for a union for Starbucks employees watch as company founder Howard Schultz leaves a hearing after testifying to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee at the Capitol in Washington on March 29, 2023. Starbucks says it’s committed to bargaining with unionized workers and reaching labor agreements next year. The move Friday is major reversal for the coffee chain after two years fighting the unionization of its U.S. stores. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Retail

    After 2 years fighting its union, Starbucks says it wants to restart bargaining and reach a contract agreement in 2024

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • McDonald'sRetail

    McDonald’s is launching a Starbucks and Dunkin’ killer called ‘CosMc’s’ with drinks like the churro frappe, pear-flavored slush and turmeric latte

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Starbucks employees and supporters link arms during a union election watch party Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. Thousands of U.S. Starbucks workers plan to walk off the job Thursday — one of the chain’s busiest days of the year — to protest the company’s anti-union stance. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)Success

    Thousands of Starbucks workers at over 200 U.S. stores are set to go on a one-day strike

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • People picketing in front of a McDonald's holding signs that read, "We demand $15 & union rights."Success

    Businesses are fighting tooth and nail against a Biden administration rule that would make it easier for millions of Americans to unionize

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • A barista places an iced coffee in the mobile pickup area at a Starbucks location in New York, US, on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Starbucks Corp. spending billions of dollars to shave seconds from the process of making nearly everythingrevamping how it brews each cup of coffee, whips up Frappuccinos and blends the wildly popular cold foam. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRetail

    Starbucks hikes pay for U.S. hourly workers—but excludes union members from some of those raises as tension between the two sides rises another notch

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • CandyRetail

    Halloween candy inflation is downright frightful—again. ‘The price of candy has gotten to be outrageous’

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • File – The Starbucks Workers United logo appears on the shirt of a person attending a hearing in Washington on March 29, 2023. Starbucks sued the union organizing its workers Wednesday, saying a pro-Palestine social media post from a union account early in the Israel-Hamas war angered hundreds of customers and damaged its reputation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Retail

    Starbucks sues union for using its name and logo in a pro-Palestine post—and Workers United sues it back

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Woman sits at a table writing a return order for a package.Tech

    Need to mail a package via USPS, UPS or FedEx? Now Uber will do it for you

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • FLEET, UNITED KINGDOM – MARCH 19: In this photo illustration, a man eats a Whopper Meal at branch of the fast food restaurant Burger King, on March 19, 2023 in Fleet, England. Founded in 1953 Burger King is an American-based multinational chain of hamburger fast food restaurants with branches across the globe including the UK. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)Retail

    ‘When is it puffery and when is it deceit?’ Lawsuit claims Burger King’s Whopper looks bigger in ads than in reality

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Cans of Bud Light beer are seen, Thursday Jan. 10, 2019, in Washington. On Friday, April 7, 2023, Anheuser-Busch InBev has reported a drop in U.S. revenue in the second quarter as Bud Light sales plunged amid conservative backlash over a campaign with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)Finance

    Bud Light market share stabilizes after transgender saga, says AB InBev: ‘We are taking the feedback’

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • American retail spendingFinance

    American retail spending was (barely) up in June

    By Anne D'Innocenzio, Paul Wiseman, and others
  • Domino'sTech

    Domino’s Pizza reverses course, partners with Uber Eats on U.S. and international deliveries

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press