Slow Bloom Coffee Cooperative

• Strike Wave – Taking the Shop: An Interview with the Slow Bloom Coffee Cooperative (2022)

From the company

• https://slowbloomcoffee.com/
• Kickstarter – Slow Bloom Coffee Cooperative: Building a Coffee Roastery (2020)

Media

• Strike Wave – Taking the Shop: An Interview with the Slow Bloom Coffee Cooperative (2022)
• Redlands Daily Facts – Redlands’ Slow Bloom Coffee rises organically from fired Augie’s staff (2022)
• Redlands Community News – Slow Bloom Coffee gets ready to open Former employees of Augie’s Coffee join union and start shop (2022)
• Sprudge – A Brief History of Coffee Unions (2022)
• Off the 10 – Slow Bloom Coffee Cooperative Has Retro Vibes, Solid Coffee (2022)
• Riot and Roux – From the bud of a Union, a Coffee Cooperative Blooms (2021)

Augie’s labor organizing

• 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)