Dee-Ann Durbin

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  • LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – MARCH 29: A robot waiter serves food at the 2023 Bar & Restaurant Expo and World Tea Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center on March 28, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images for Nightclub & Bar Media Group)Tech

    Restaurants say they can’t hire enough servers due to the labor shortage. Some are turning to robots

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Starbucks founder and former CEO Howard Schultz testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee where he faced questions about the company’s actions during an ongoing campaign for an employee union, at the Capitol in Washington on March 29, 2023. Starbucks has fired one of the workers who helped kick off a unionization effort at the company on Friday, March 31. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Success

    Starbucks has fired a worker who helped spark the company’s massive unionization drive but she vows to fight to get her job back

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Longtime Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz takes his seat at a crowded Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing room where he expects to face sharp questioning about the company’s actions during an ongoing unionizing campaign, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Politics

    As Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz faces off with Bernie Sanders he insists: ‘We do nothing nefarious. We put our people first’

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 5: Amazon and Stabucks workers, supported by new service economy unions, march through the streets to the private homes of their CEOs to protest union busting on Labor Day, September 5, 2022, in New York City, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)Retail

    Howard Schultz agrees to testify before Senate about Starbucks’ anti-union push that Sen. Bernie Sanders calls ‘illegal’

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Reese's Plant Based Peanut Butter CupsRetail

    Get ready for Reese’s Plant Based Peanut Butter Cups

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A Tyson Foods, Inc., truck is parked at a food warehouse on Oct. 28, 2009, in Little Rock, Ark. Thirty-four Tyson Foods employees, former employees and family members filed a lawsuit against the Arkansas-based company Monday, March 6, 2023, saying it failed to take appropriate precautions during the early days of the COVID pandemic. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)Finance

    Tyson workers sue company over lack of COVID protections during early days of pandemic

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 28: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a rally in support of the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on February 28, 2023 in Washington, DC. This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases challenging President Joe Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness program, which remains on hold after a lower court blocked the plan in November. The two cases Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown, could decide the fate of the program that aims to forgive an estimated $400 billion in student debt for 26 million borrowers. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Leadership

    Bernie Sanders just made moves to force Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to testify in front of Congress warning that no one is ‘above the law’

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Matt Baker, chef and owner of Gravitas, poses for a portrait inside the restaurant, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, in Washington. Gravitas has a subscription service offering a monthly meal for two. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Finance

    Restaurants like Taco Bell are falling in love with the Netflix subscription model—like $10 a month for a taco every day

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A view of the exterior of the Home Depot improvement store, in Niles, Ill., Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. Home Depot says it’s investing $1 billion in wage increases for its U.S. and Canadian hourly workers. The Atlanta-based home improvement chain said Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023 that every hourly employee will get a raise starting this month. The investment will also ensure that starting pay is at least $15 per hour in all markets. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)Success

    A hot jobs market is forcing Home Depot to spend $1 billion raising employee wages to ‘attract and retain the best talent’

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Netherland’s Prime Minister Mark Rutte, left, speaks with U.S. President Joe Biden during a round table meeting at a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, June 29, 2022. Biden is set to host Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte for talks. The U.S. administration is looking to persuade the Netherlands to further limit China’s access to advanced semiconductors with export restrictions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)Politics

    Biden’s huge computer chips campaign against China has won over the Dutch and Japanese, source says

    By Dee-Ann Durbin, Aamer Madhani, and others
  • Taylor Swift poses in the press room with awards at the American Music AwardsPolitics

    The Taylor Swift Ticketmaster fiasco was so intense that there’s going to be a Senate hearing about it today

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Howard SchultzSuccess

    American workers have never been less unionized, as membership rate hits all-time low

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • A man with a suitcase at an airport.Environment

    Brutally cold weather and heavy snow storms could totally derail your holiday travel plans

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 9: Members of a recently formed union of Starbucks workers hold a rally to celebrate the first anniversary of their founding, December 9, 2022 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)Retail

    More than 1,000 Starbucks baristas at 100 stores will walk out in longest strike in year-old union drive

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • GrinchPersonal Finance

    The Grinch is coming: Most Americans say it’s harder to afford holiday gifts this year

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press