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A ‘Gen U’ Of Starbucks Baristas Is Powering A Growing Push To Unionize

February 2, 2022 Kate Rogers And Amelia Lucas, CNBC. Organize! Starbucks, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs, Youth Activism

After notching a first win late last year, two Starbucks company-owned stores have formally organized after a December vote and hearing before the National Labor Relations Board. To date, more than 30 company-owned stores from Massachusetts to Tennessee and Arizona have filed for union elections at Starbucks, according to a CNBC analysis of NLRB filings. An industry-wide labor crunch and the high-profile union push from Starbucks workers could mean more chains see their employees follow suit. “I do think, right now, this is the canary in the coal mine for the union and for the industry,” said MKM Partners analyst Brett Levy. The petitions to organize have come faster than even those involved first believed possible, according to Richard Bensinger, union organizer with Starbucks Workers United and a former organizing director of the AFL-CIO.

Starbucks Workers Agree To A Union In Buffalo

December 11, 2021 Dee-Ann Durbin and Caroline Thompson, AP News. Organize! Labor Union, New York (NY), Starbucks, Worker Rights

Buffalo, NY - Starbucks workers at a store in Buffalo, New York, voted to unionize on Thursday, a first for the 50-year-old coffee retailer in the U.S. and the latest sign that the labor movement is stirring after decades of decline. The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday that workers voted 19-8 in favor of a union at the Elmwood Avenue location, one of three stores in Buffalo where elections were being held. A second store rejected the union in a vote of 12-8, but the union said it might challenge that result because it wasn’t confident all of the eligible votes had been counted. The results of a third store could not be determined because both sides challenged seven separate votes.

Might Starbucks Soon Start Sharing The Bucks?

December 8, 2021 Sam Pizzigati, Nation Of Change. Resist! Starbucks, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

The cream always rises to the top. Howard Schultz must love this folk maxim. And well he should. Understanding the ways of cream has helped make Schultz — the two-time former CEO and current chairman emeritus of Starbucks — a billionaire almost five times over. Starbucks baristas in the upstate New York city of Buffalo might beg to differ. Cream does rise, they understand. But that rising cream never achieves actual separation — physical distance — from the rest of a beverage. Schultz and his fellow Starbucks movers and shakers, on the other hand, have achieved that physical separation. The enormous wealth they’ve extracted out of Starbucks has shifted them into an entirely different sphere of human existence. The baristas of Buffalo have a better idea. At three Starbucks outlets in the Buffalo area, they’ve been organizing to become “the first corporate-owned Starbucks in the country to unionize.”

Three Starbucks Set For Vote On Union

November 2, 2021 Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Organize! Starbucks, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Workers hoping to unionize Starbucks stores in the U.S. have won a preliminary victory before the National Labor Relations Board. The board said employees at three separate Starbucks stores in Buffalo, N.Y., can hold union elections in November in a new ruling. That means that workers need only a majority of votes cast at a single location to form a union. The company had argued that employees at all 20 Buffalo-area stores should vote in a single election. If the effort is successful, the stores would be the first of Starbucks' 8,000 company-owned U.S. stores to unionize. The Seattle coffee giant opposes the unionization effort. Starbucks said Thursday evening that it had just received the ruling and was evaluating its options.

Buffalo Starbucks Workers Say They Will Unionize One Store At A Time

September 1, 2021 Hamilton Nolan, In These Times. Organize! Starbucks, Union Organizing, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

The fast food industry, one of the most ubiquitous low-wage employers in America, has been notoriously immune to unions. For nearly a decade, the Fight For $15 campaign has been successfully working to raise the industry’s wages — but despite its slogan of “$15 and a union,” has not produced any actual unions. Now, an unrelated group of Starbucks employees in Buffalo, New York, are poised to move forward with something that has rarely been seen before: Union elections at individual fast food stores. Starbucks is America’s second largest fast food chain, with more than 15,000 stores nationwide. Their only unionized stores are a small number run by subcontractors in places such as airports.

Starbucks Has A Slave Labor Problem

June 25, 2019 Anna Canning, Fairworldproject.org Resist! Brazil, Labor, Slavery, Starbucks, Wage Slavery

Once again, Brazilian labor inspectors have found slave labor1 on plantations where Starbucks buys coffee. And not just any plantations, but ones that have been “certified” to Starbucks’ C.A.F.E. Practices standards. This marks the second time in nine months that this has happened, pointing to a huge systemic problem with the way Starbucks is meeting their commitment to “99% ethical coffee.” It’s time for that to change.

Billions For Bitter Coffee, Bloody Chocolate

May 9, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Artkillingapathy.com Educate! Exploitation, Nestle, Starbucks

On Monday May 7th, business and economics sites were abuzz with the latest news that Nestle and Starbucks are striking a $7.15 billion coffee licensing deal. The cash deal would grant Nestle exclusive rights to sell Starbucks coffee and tea around the world giving Starbucks a powerful global boost and giving Nestle a premium brand to peddle. The deal would help reinforce Nestle’s number one coffee company position and would fortify Starbucks from the dip they’ve experienced in the U.S. due to the proliferation of high-end coffee chains selling $10 lattes complete with milk art and icy stares from suspendered baristas. The angle that’s missing, however, from the business and economic news sites is what deals like this mean for both people and planet. What kind of companies are getting these billion-dollar boosts? Who benefits?

Protests Force Starbucks To Ditch ADL From Leading Anti-Racism Training

May 1, 2018 Marjorie Cohn, Consortiumnews.com Resist! Protests, Racism, Starbucks

After an outcry over the inclusion of the Anti-Defamation League as a lead member of Starbuck’s anti-racism training, the ubiquitous coffee shop backed down, as Marjorie Cohn reports for Consortium News. After a video of the arrest of two African-American men sitting in Starbucks without buying anything went viral, Starbucks scheduled anti-racism training. But their inclusion of the Anti-Defamation League in the training provoked another outcry and Starbucks capitulated. On April 12, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson were arrested for trespassing at a Philadelphia Starbucks. A manager called the police because the men, who had been in the coffee shop for just a few minutes, hadn’t bought anything. Melissa DePino, a Starbucks customer who recorded the video of the arrest that went viral on social media, said, “These guys never raised their voices.

Protests Erupt At Philly Starbucks Where 2 Black Men Were Arrested For ‘Trespassing’

April 17, 2018 Hayley Miller, Huffingtonpost.com Resist! Philadelphia, Protests, Racism, Starbucks

“Starbucks coffee is anti-black,” the demonstrators chanted Monday morning. Protesters swarmed a Starbucks in Philadelphia on Monday, days after police arrested two black men who had been waiting there to meet a friend. Dozens of demonstrators shut down the coffee shop in Philadelphia’s central business district for over three hours Monday morning. The activists came out to protest racial profiling after the store’s manager called police Thursday to remove the men for sitting at a table without buying anything. “A whole lot of racism, a whole lot of whack,” protesters chanted Monday. “Starbucks coffee is anti-black.”

Neil Young Announces Starbucks Boycott

November 22, 2014 Neil Young, www.neilyoung.com Resist! boycott, GMOs, Monsanto, Starbucks

I used to line up and get my latte everyday, but yesterday was my last one. Starbucks has teamed up with Monsanto to sue Vermont, and stop accurate food labeling. Tell Starbucks to withdraw support for the lawsuit -- we have a right to know what we put in our mouths. Starbucks doesn't think you have the right to know what's in your coffee. So it's teamed up with Monsanto to sue the small U.S. state of Vermont to stop you from finding out. Hiding behind the shadowy "Grocery Manufacturers Association," Starbucks is supporting a lawsuit that's aiming to block a landmark law that requires genetically-modified ingredients be labeled. Amazingly, it claims that the law is an assault on corporations' right to free speech.

Employee Confronts Starbucks CEO At Public Meeting

June 21, 2014 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! CEO, Starbucks, Unions, Worker's Rights

Washington, DC-area Starbucks employee Sam Dukore put a few tough questions to Howard Schultz, the corporate CEO, when he came to town promoting a new benefit that Starbucks is offering its employees: tuition reimbursement for online college classes. Dukore, who makes less than $10/hour working as a barista at Starbucks for 2 1/2 years, says Schultz should address low wages throughout the company. Although Starbucks made $1.7 billion in profits last year, the average pay for a barista at Starbucks is about $8/hour, and hours scheduled tend to fluctuate from week to week. Schultz was paid $28.9 million in 2013, an 80% pay raise over the year before, plus $18 million in stock awards and an invitation to work as head of the company for three more years. Dukore says that he was promised a promotion six months ago, but it’s failed to materialize.

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