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Baltimore-area Apple and Starbucks workers have led the way in nation and state forming unions. Now what?

Workers at the Apple store in Towson, Maryland, won national attention and praise from President Joe Biden after becoming the first of the tech giant’s U.S. employees to unionize. Less than two months earlier, Starbucks baristas in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood became the first of the coffee chain’s Maryland employees…

Tribune News Service · Jul 1, 2022

Baltimore baristas unionize the first Starbucks in Maryland

Starbucks baristas in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood voted Monday to unionize, becoming the giant coffee chain’s first Maryland workers to organize amid a fast-growing national movement.

Tribune News Service · Apr 26, 2022

Majority-Black city gets $150m to fix sewage crisis from New York state

Mount Vernon’s crumbling sewage infrastructure has for years caused unsanitary backups in homes and pollution of local rivers

The Guardian - US · Apr 15, 2022