We Uncovered A Billionaire-Led Plot To Thwart The Starbucks Union

A right-wing, billionaire group is pushing a union decertification campaign at Starbucks. We found leaked documents indicating that the National Right To Work Foundation and Starbucks are encouraging workers to leave Starbucks Workers United. We uncovered their illegal scheme.
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[OceanAce]

You can be required to have 10 years of experience in something that's only existed for one year, you can be required to obtain all sorts of licenses at your own cost, and above all you can be fired for any arbitrary reason and it will still be up to you to prove it was for an illegal reason. "Right to work" is absolute bs.

[WanderingExistence]

Corporations view people has objects, and they push down wages as if we don't have lives and a families to take care of. People are rented by the hour and given no say in the space they spend 1/3 of their life. We need democracy in the workplace, unions and cooperative together can empower workers.

[michaeld]

Howard Schultz should be in prison. It's insane that there are no laws to hold these criminals accountable for breaking the law and blatantly lying when saying they didn't think they were legally allowed to give their employees a raise.

[publicutility]

All this shows how the personal wealth of billionaires cannot be made through hard work alone. The accumulation of extreme wealth depends on other systems, such as exploitative labor practices, tax breaks, and loopholes that are beyond the reach of most ordinary people

[kts]

I no longer go to Starbucks ever. I’d rather go thirsty than give them a dime of my money.
If I find a union Starbucks I will go.

[mainely]

To anyone who is joining against the Union I would like to kindly remind you that without unions workers in most Industries would have little right or ability to effectively negotiate a living wage. Simply put companies like Starbucks can afford to pay their employees they would rather instead funnel the bulk of the money to people who are already wealthy Beyond their ability to ever spend it.

[carycunningham]

This is what class warfare looks like.

[moyo]

This makes it extremely clear that some people are just above the law. It is 100% illegal to fire people for being in a union, yet nobody is in prison for it.

[cliveklg]

Hope someone is filing a complaint about National Right to Work having illegal access to information.

[NonyaSmith]

Everyday consumers should be boycotting union busting corporations. Go local.

[gjlite]

Keep up the good fight, Starbucks union members. It will take time, you will be attacked, but you will win.

[hegyak]

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When the Corporation only faces Fines and Fees for Law Breaking, they consider that a "Cost of Doing Business"

Start JAILING those at the Top, and it WILL STOP

[ryandinaro]

I worked at one of the stores filing for decertifications. My store was plagued with a string of firings and partners quitting due to the union busting campaign. Soon after they fired me for organizing, I was receiving reports from a coworker of management approaching workers to discuss decertification. It was also reported that the manager would tell new hires that the union won't be around much longer. All this was reported months before the petition was filed.

I was the last pro-union worker at the store, with our union meetings going from roughly 15 people, to two after I was fired. I believe they used my illegal firing and subsequent union freeze to push the petition. The petition will not be processed because of the severity of the charges alleged by the NLRB against my store.

[angies.]

What a joke that Howard Schultz tried to run for the Presidency of the US as a Democratic progressive. Who the hell did he think he was kidding?

[wastedinspiration]

I was a former Starbucks barista. I started in 2000 at 18 and worked there off and on for 7 years (there was a 2-year gap where I moved). I frequently think about being a young, stupid kid who believed the anti-union lies I was told. I remember parroting their talking points to other young people, doing their dirty work, and I want to cry. They told us that if we unionized, we would no longer get tips (and living in the bay area, most of us relied on those tips). It means so much to me to see that workers have broken out of that mind-prison. I'm so ashamed for my part in perpetuating it.

[serafinacosta]

From Brazil, where we have, in my metro region, Starbucks stores. For a coffee, I can go way better on price and quality grinds to a mom and pop shop. So I avoid Starbucks.

For America, cozy mom and pops might not be able to compete against Starbucks buying scale, or wages, but they are not corporate owned, nor a franchised unit.

As Ralph Nader often said, Corporativism is killing America.

[austinpratt]

"The National Right to Work for Low Wages" should be the name of the organization.

[kansascityshuffle]

Starbucks just pissing on the backs of its unionized employees and tell them it’s just another rainy union day.

[llpolluxll]

I've started going to local coffee shops but I feel like I should visit a local starbucks at some point to ask what I can do to help.

[TNTkeynine]

These corporations are NOTHING without workers. Workers must unite and unionize to make sure these companies pay them the living wages and provide them with the safe work environments they deserve.