John,
4,000,000 days of strikes. That's how many days workers walked off their job in 2022. And most of those strikes were held by Starbucks and fast-food workers.
Beyond the low pay, unsafe conditions, and disrespect, we are fed up with CEOs like Howard Schultz doing everything in their power to try to silence us and keep us from winning our union. We must hold them accountable. That's why Senator Bernie Sanders called for CEO Schultz to testify before the HELP (Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) Committee.
The company has said it won't send him so tomorrow, the committee will vote on issuing a subpoena for him to provide testimony about Starbucks' non-compliance of federal labor laws.
Email Starbucks CEO and tell him to do his job and go to the HELP Committee hearing.
Working at Starbucks, I have seen firsthand how the company has neglected the rights of its workers. I've experienced understaffing, a lack of store management, witnessed discrimination, and was exposed to an unhealthy and unsafe work environment. As a result of these consistently neglected issues, my store began organizing to form a union. Things quickly went from somewhat tolerable to completely unbearable. It was clear that management was targeting me for organizing my store. They monitored my every move. Then, two weeks before my store's union election, Starbucks came up with a bogus reason to fire me. A Region of the National Labor Relations Board found that there was sufficient evidence to issue a complaint against Starbucks for wrongfully terminating me and I am now awaiting a judge's decision on whether Starbucks violated the law by firing me.
Starbucks claims to be a socially responsible company that values its employees, but the reality is it is breaking laws left and right to silence us.
Workers have filed more than 200 labor charges against Starbucks alleging the company has violated federal labor law, so it’s no surprise that Howard Schultz is trying to avoid testifying. We need to let him know we will not take NO for an answer.
Schultz's refusal to address these issues in front of the HELP Committee sends a message that Starbucks is only concerned with its bottom line, not the people who work there.
TAKE ACTION TODAY to urge Schultz to appear before the Senate committee to address the labor law violations at Starbucks. CEOs must be held accountable. Join the fight!
In solidarity,
Katie McCoy
Ex-Starbucks Worker
Marysville, WA
Fight for $15 and a Union
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