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[Link] The Starbucks Union Push Is So Successful It Could Start a Turf War

Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com

The UFCW filed to represent workers at three Starbucks in Wisconsin. Not everyone is happy about that. The tsunami of union organizing at Starbucks is one of the U.S. labor movement’s most high-profile successes in recent years.

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[Link] Starbucks Is Blocking Union Activists and Workers on Twitter

Read: 18/4/2022 www.vice.com

James Skretta, a former barista who helped organize a union at his Starbucks in Buffalo, retweeted the tweet from Starbucks’ corporate account, which has 11 million followers, and wrote: “@Starbucks official stance on union-busting.

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[Link] Video: Howard Schultz Compares Selflessness of Starbucks to That of Holocaust Prisoners

Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com

Schultz visited Starbucks workers in Buffalo days before a historic union election that could have reverberating effects across the fast food and retail industries.

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[Link] To-go orders are ruining restaurant workers' lives

Read: 8/11/2021 www.businessinsider.com

The COVID-19 pandemic closed dining rooms and led to a boom in to-go orders across the restaurant industry — but they're making things unbearable for workers.

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[Link] Starbucks Tells Unionizing Workers 'We Want You To Vote No'

Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com

On Monday evening, Starbucks sent a blatantly anti-union email to workers eligible to vote in union elections at three stores that begins on November 10.

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[Link] Starbucks Temporarily Closes Two Stores That Are Trying to Unionize

Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com

The company said that the two temporary store closures in Buffalo have nothing to do with the union drive—one is for a remodel and the other is for training new hires.

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