[The actions were launched in response to Starbucks’ aggressive
anti-union efforts against worker organizing, which have included
allegations of firing dozens of workers in retaliation for union
organizing, intimidation, store closures, withholding benefits,
schedule cuts and delays in bargaining a first union contract. ]
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STARBUCKS WORKERS AT OVER 100 US STORES WALK OUT AHEAD OF SHAREHOLDER
MEETING  
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Michael Sainato
March 22, 2023
The Guardian
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_ The actions were launched in response to Starbucks’ aggressive
anti-union efforts against worker organizing, which have included
allegations of firing dozens of workers in retaliation for union
organizing, intimidation, store closures, withholding benefits,
schedule cuts and delays in bargaining a first union contract. _

Starbucks employees protest outside the flagship Starbucks Reserve
Roastery, on 17 December 2022 in Seattle, Washington., Photograph:
James Anderson/Alamy

 

 

Starbucks workers at over 100 stores around the US walked out on
Wednesday ahead of the company’s annual shareholder meeting and held
a protest in Seattle outside Starbucks’ headquarters.

The actions were launched in response to Starbucks’ aggressive
anti-union efforts against worker organizing, which have included
allegations of firing dozens of workers in retaliation for union
organizing, intimidation, store closures, withholding benefits,
schedule cuts and delays in bargaining a first union contract.
Starbucks has denied or rejected all allegations and charges of labor
law violations.

More than 7,500 workers at over 280 stores in the US have won union
elections, but the union campaign has slowed down since taking off in
early 2022 amid Starbucks’ opposition.
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The actions come a week ahead of the Starbucks chairman and former CEO
Howard Schultz’s scheduled 
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before the US Senate health, education, labor, and pensions (Help)
committee over the company’s union busting.

“Starbucks baristas like me are the ones who keep our stores
running. We remember our customers’ regular orders, make the lattes,
clean up spills, and are often the bright spot of our customers’
days. We are the heart and soul of Starbucks,” said Sarah Pappin, a
Seattle Starbucks worker. “Instead of celebrating the law-breaking
former CEO hellbent on silencing us, Starbucks should respect our
right to organize and meet us at the bargaining table. We are
Starbucks, and we deserve better.”

At the shareholders’ meeting, Starbucks workers are asking
shareholders to vote to approve a resolution for a third-party
assessment of the company’s commitment to workers’
rights, arguing
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is violating its own commitments in its global human rights statement
on collective bargaining rights and non-interference.

“As Starbucks celebrates their provenance and record profits this
week, my partners have to deal with the reality that we are being
nickel-and-dimed to extract as much labor as cheaply as possible,”
said Maria Flores, who has worked at Starbucks in Queens, New York,
for three years.

_Michael Sainato is labor reporter for Guardian US. Twitter @msainat1
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