Industry: Food and Beverage
Location: Redlands, California
Number of employees: 20
Became employee owned: 2020
From the company
- https://slowbloomcoffee.com/
- https://www.instagram.com/slowbloomcoffee/
- Kickstarter – Slow Bloom Coffee Cooperative: Building a Coffee Roastery (2020)
Learn more
- Daily Coffee News – National Labor Relations Board Files Complaint Against Augie’s Coffee (December 2020)
- Redlands Community News – Augie’s Coffee shops closing permanently (December 2020)
- Redlands Daily Facts – Augie’s Coffee closes online business, faces government labor complaint (December 2020)
- United Electrical – Coffee Workers Form Worker Co-op In Wake of Mass Firings (October 2020)
- The Brew – Workers Unions and Augie’s Coffee (audio) (October 2020)
- Boss Barista – The Augie’s Coffee Union and the Rhetoric of “Family” (audio) (August 2020)
- Sprudge – Augie’s Coffee Closes Retail Locations Amid Allegations Of Union Busting ( July 2020)
- LA Times – Did baristas lose their jobs because of COVID-19 or because they tried to unionize? (July 2020)
