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CNBC: Starbucks union asks coffee giant to extend pay hikes, benefits to unionized stores
Catherine Creighton, director of the Buffalo Co-Lab, says the law requires companies to give a union notice of a new benefit and the opportunity to bargain over it. But she says that, “if the union says they have no objection, then the employer can absolutely give them that benefit.”