Starbucks’s Relentless Union-Busting Campaign Won’t Stop Without Consumer Pressure
Starbucks is “fighting dirtier and dirtier all the time” in its attempt to smash the nationwide union drive, Starbucks Workers United field director Daisy Pitkin writes. Workers are organizing and striking — they need consumers to step up their support.
Starbucks Workers United is calling on community allies and customers for solidarity and support in their fight against corporate’s union-busting campaign. (Lewis Stickley / PA Images via Getty Images)
There are still dozens of stores waiting for their elections, and more stores filing for election every week. These thousands of newly unionized workers are in the fight of their lives for a contract.
The company is fighting dirtier and dirtier all the time, from closing stores to firing more than eighty union leaders across the country to now filing suit at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) claiming that the Board itself is committing fraud by colluding with the union. Their campaign is getting more and more vicious.
[Corporate’s] theory of the campaign, in my mind, is to crush the momentum. They are counting on us not being able to continue to build and organize. They’re counting on the idea that there’s not going to be enough community solidarity to really stand up to their bullying, and that they’re going to be able to quash the campaign and wait it out and then decertify stores.
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