Above Photo: Baristas from across the country gathered at the Labor Notes Conference this month. As more stores begin to push for a first contract, Starbucks Workers United is ramping up for a summer of solidarity: “We’re gonna need the whole labor movement to come out,” says Casey Moore, a barista at a Starbucks in Buffalo, the city that was home to the union’s first victory last year. (Jim West). “Seven months ago if you asked me about a union I would’ve said, ‘I don’t know, cops have them?’” says Sarah Pappin, a shift supervisor at a Seattle Starbucks. But on […]
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Above Photo: In South Carolina, the state with the lowest rate of union membership, Starbucks workers are helping breathe life into the labor movement. Kerry Taylor. Columbia, South Carolina – Starbucks baristas in Columbia, South Carolina, returned to their jobs on Saturday, May 21, following a three-day walkout to protest anti-union retaliation. Managers began denying employees promotions and transfers several weeks ago after 22 of 28 “partners” at the Millwood Avenue store petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for union representation. The workers reached a breaking point on May 18 when a popular store manager was fired for refusing to engage […]
Based on current filings alone, the Starbucks Union is already on track to have 6,400 workers at 230 stores. Starbucks Workers United (SEIU) began rapidly unionizing the Starbucks workforce late last year. In this post, I use case data from the NLRB website to provide some up-to-date statistics about the effort. Election Filings The first election filing in this campaign came in August of last year. In the next few months, a few more representation petitions were filed with the NLRB, but not very many. By the end of 2021, the Starbucks union had only filed for 14 elections. It was […]
Starbucks workers in Eugene, Oregon have gone on strike against union busting and the unlawful firing of three union organizers. Starbucks workers at a location in Eugene, Oregon went on strike on Tuesday to protest the union busting at their location and the unlawful firing of three organizers. The workers at this Starbucks store voted 17-0 in favor of unionizing. They are part of the massive Starbucks unionization wave, with 70 other stores nationwide winning union elections and over 250 stores filing to unionize. . Starbucks, however, is doing everything it can to stop this wave. As Starbucks Workers United described in a […]
Above Photo: Derek Gee / Buffalo News. Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New York went on strike to call out the company’s union busting tactics. Let’s make this happen at every Starbucks in the country. Buffalo, New York – On Thursday, workers at a downtown Starbucks in Buffalo, New York went on strike after the company announced it was planning to withhold proposed wage increases and benefits from employees at newly unionized stores. The one-day strike, which shut down the entire store, was a direct response to the announcement by CEO Howard Schultz that proposed raises and benefit increases at corporate-owned Starbucks […]
Above photo: Luigi Morris. Despite being illegally terminated, Starbucks workers from Memphis, Tennessee and other cities across the country are fighting to unionize and win back their jobs. On Friday afternoon two fired Starbucks workers, Beto Sanchez and Lakota McGlawn, joined activists for a rally and press conference in front of the posh Greenwich Village penthouse of Starbucks CEO and founder Howard Schultz. The speakers — who were fired in February for attempting to organize their Starbucks store in Memphis, Tennessee — are demanding that they and their fellow workers immediately be reinstated, and that Starbucks end its union busting tactics. […]
Above Photo: A message board at the Hopewell, New Jersey, Starbucks is filled with notes of support from the union from customers and other union members. (Sara Mughal). The last time I wrote in Labor Notes, I described the captive-audience “listening sessions” that Starbucks corporate had attempted to use against me and my co-workers who are trying to unionize our Hopewell Starbucks in central New Jersey. (See (“How We Turned the Tables on Starbucks Union-Busters,” March 2022.) After corporate failed spectacularly in our first one, they decided to cancel the second, saying they had “no new information to share with us.” We haven’t […]
Fueled by worries about COVID-19 safety and a lack of sick days, Black workers at the two corporate giants are leading the fight for union organizing. When news broke on Friday, April 1, 2022 that Amazon workers in Staten Island, N.Y. had managed to organize the first union in the notoriously anti-union company’s 27-year history, a common refrain across social media went something like this: This is not an April Fool’s Day joke. The news was so noteworthy that the name of Christian Smalls, a 33-year-old Black former Amazon employee and the interim president of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) who led the walk-out, […]
Overland Park Starbucks Workers Walk Out On Strike Saturday March 20, 2022 Overland Park Starbucks Workers Walk Out On Strike Saturday2022-03-202022-03-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220320.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Pro-union pins sit on a table during a watch party for Starbucks’ employees union election, Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. Starbucks has fired seven employees who were leading an effort to unionize a Memphis, Tennessee, store. The Seattle coffee giant said Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022 that the employees violated company policy by reopening a store after closing time and inviting non-employees to come inside and move throughout the store, including behind the counter and in back rooms. […]
Union Organising Is Brewing In Starbucks: 100 Stores And Counting By John McGrath, Counterfire. March 11, 2022 Union Organising Is Brewing In Starbucks: 100 Stores And Counting2022-03-112022-03-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220311-1.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Starbucks Memphis 7. @SBWorkersUnited / Twitter. Report On The Rapidly Spreading Unionization Drive At Starbucks Stores Across The US Despite The Company’s Union-Busting Tactics. More union organizing is brewing at Starbucks. In December 2021, staff at a Starbucks in Buffalo, NY became the first US branch to successfully vote to form a union. Since then, 103 Starbucks branches have decided to join them by filing petitions with the National Labor Relations Board. […]
Above Photo: Starbucks employees and supporters react as votes are read during a union election watch party on Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, New York. Associated Press. Starbucks Chain’s Legal Team Said Microsoft Outlook Crashed As It Was Emailing The Files To Delay A Union Election. A Labor Board Official Didn’t Have Much Sympathy. As more baristas around the country seek to unionize, Starbucks has used a massive legal team to slow the pace of union elections. But the coffee chain suffered a tough legal setback on Friday, all thanks to some late emails. Workers at several stores in upstate New York recently […]
Above Photo: Starbucks is paying millions to a law firm to train managers in union-busting. Workers are not impressed. Sara Mughal. A national wave of organizing has hit Starbucks’ company-run stores in the last three months. The author is among hundreds of Starbucks workers who have filed for elections with the National Labor Relations Board in almost 100 locations since early December when workers in Buffalo won the first union at a company-run location in the United States in decades. —Editors Let me set the stage for you: A single cheese pizza cut into sixteenths, a small group of chairs awkwardly […]
Above Photo: The union representing Starbucks workers has already filed a charge seeking to have the fired employees reinstated. Associated Press. Will Labor Law Protect The Workers? Employers normally have little to lose by purging organizers, even when it’s found to be illegal. This high-profile case could be different. Starbucks fired seven union supporters at a store in Memphis, Tennessee, on Tuesday in what the union has portrayed as a retaliatory purge of the organizing committee. The terminations mark the most significant escalation in the battle between the world’s largest coffee chain and the fast-growing Starbucks Workers United campaign. The firings made national news, but […]
Above Photo: Richard Bensinger (left), who is advising unionization efforts, along with baristas Casey Moore (right), Brian Murray (second from left), and Jaz Brisack (second from right), discuss their efforts to unionize three Buffalo-area stores, inside the movement’s headquarters on Oct. 28, 2021 in Buffalo, N.Y. The National Labor Relations Board is scheduled to count ballots Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, from union elections held at three separate Starbucks stores in the Buffalo area. Two Philadelphia stores took a key step in forming a union last Friday. AP Photo / Carolyn Thompson. Workers at two Starbucks stores in Philadelphia have petitioned for […]
From coast to coast, young Starbucks baristas are pushing to unionize their cafes, flexing their collective power against the coffee giant in a fight that could change the broader restaurant industry and its workforce. 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 […]
Baristas in Buffalo are mounting the coffee giant’s most significant union challenge yet. 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. That classic folk wisdom about cream has another attraction for a billionaire like Schultz. The maxim, metaphorically speaking, neatly serves to help justify all his billions. Why shouldn’t Howard Schultz be sitting way up high and pretty? In business as in beverages, after all, […]
Above Photo: Richard Bensinger, who is advising unionization efforts, looks at Starbucks Union T-shirts inside the movement’s headquarters in Buffalo, N.Y. Workers at three Starbucks stores in Buffalo will hold union elections next month after winning a case before the National Labor Relations Board. AP/Carolyn Thompson. Labor board approves elections for Buffalo, N.Y., workers. 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 […]
A group of activists attacked a Starbucks in Seattle, shattering the coffee shop’s windows and then setting off fireworks inside the building. Police arrived at the scene and ordered the rioters to disperse. Black-clad protesters threw rocks and other projectiles at the business, while others used implements to destroy the windowed storefront. Video footage shows rioters lighting firecrackers and tossing them into the building. Several loud explosions can be heard as members of the mob cheer. The Starbucks was also sprayed with anti-police graffiti. Law enforcement moved in and declared the protest a riot, warning the crowd to leave the area […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/14/1079939193_0:-1:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_da6233c72832b91deb5fb0ab130131d3.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202007201079939279-too-cool-for-you-posh-husky-picks-up-daily-puppuccino-/ Much of the world is trying to stay cool amid a series of intense summer heat waves. This includes our pets, as a lavish canine recently demonstrated. Footage shared on YouTube captures a Siberian husky residing in Omaha, Nebraska, sitting in a car at a Starbucks drive-thru with his head poking out of a window. The pup waits patiently for his refreshing frozen beverage. An employee is then seen handing him the drink, with the thirsty pup happily taking it inside the car. “The dog, Max, loves getting his daily puppuccino from Starbucks,” the […]
An off duty LAPD officer allegedly found a tampon halfway through drinking his Frappuccino from a Starbucks in Diamond Bar, California, on Friday. Bill Melugin of Fox LA reports that the officer used his police credit union debit card to pay for his order. BREAKING: Sources tell me an off duty LAPD officer allegedly found a tampon halfway thru his Frappuccino at a Starbucks in Diamond Bar on Friday. I’m told he used his police credit union debit card. Sheriff’s Dept. confirms they took a report & they’re now investigating. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/HdLTreNuur — Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) June 23, 2020 TRENDING: “Tear […]
Law enforcement in Los Angeles County has launched a probe in response to a complaint filed by an off-duty officer, who claims that a beverage he purchased at Starbucks contained a tampon, local media reported. The unidentified LAPD officer purportedly found the tampon in his Frappuccino after patronizing a Starbucks cafe in Diamond Bar, according to a local FOX affiliate. The off-duty cop used his police credit union debit card to purchase the drink, which may have alerted employees that he was law enforcement. A stomach-churning photograph shared on social media purportedly shows the coffee-drenched tampon in question – which had […]