John,
Starbucks baristas have had enough. After years of low pay, erratic schedules, and intimidation from management, nearly ten thousand workers in over six hundred stores have authorized a nationwide strike beginning on November 13, Red Cup Day.
This is a fight for survival. Workers have filed more than one thousand complaints with the National Labor Relations Board over union busting and retaliation. Meanwhile, Starbucks’ CEO Brian Niccol made ninety-six million dollars last year. His solution to organizing workers has been to close stores, add surveillance, and replace people with automation.
The strike will hit Starbucks where it hurts most: profits. Red Cup Day is one of its biggest sales events. Workers are demanding fair wages, safe staffing levels, and real scheduling stability. Until they get a fair contract, the rest of us have one job: hold the line. Delete the Starbucks app, skip your usual order, and refuse to cross the picket line.
Tell Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol you’re standing with the workers striking for their rights and for fair treatment on the job. Add your name to the pledge now.
This is about basic fairness and respect. The people who serve millions of customers each day deserve a living wage, stable hours, and a workplace free from retaliation. When they organize, they are exercising the same rights that built the American middle class.
Every purchase we withhold increases pressure on Starbucks to act responsibly. Every deleted app sends a message that customers are watching. And every signature added to this campaign helps shift power from the boardroom back to the workers who earn the company’s profits.
Starbucks isn’t short on money. It’s short on respect. This strike is about power and who gets to have it. Workers have shown theirs by organizing. We can show ours by standing with them.
Tell Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol you stand with the workers and will not cross the picket line until they win a fair contract.
Together, we can make sure solidarity wins.
- DFA AF Team
