Sanders, investors warn Starbucks on response to unionization

[Uncle Joe]

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“If Starbucks can afford to spend $20 billion on stock buybacks and dividends and provide a $20 million compensation package to its [outgoing] CEO, it can afford a unionized workforce that can collectively bargain for better wages, better benefits, safer working conditions and reliable schedules,” Sanders said in the letter to Schultz. “This is a pivotal moment for Starbucks. As you return to the company, it is time to do the right thing: End the union busting and obey the law.”

This month, the NLRB issued a formal complaint against Starbucks, alleging that the company retaliated against workers in Arizona attempting to organize. The independent federal agency has received a flurry of complaints from employees over anti-union tactics.

“For a company like Starbucks, which depends on its reputation, jeopardizing its standing with powerful and everyday Americans with conduct that the NLRB claims is a violation of federal labor law is risky,” said Jonas Kron, chief advocacy officer for Trillium Asset Management, an asset management firm focused on environmental, social and governance values.

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“With rapidly growing public support for unions, which currently stands at a high of 68 percent approval, we believe that Starbucks’ reputation may be jeopardized due to reporting of aggressive union-busting tactics,” the investors said in their letter to Johnson and Starbucks Chair Mellody Hobson.

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https://rollcall.com/2022/03/31/sanders-investors-warn-starbucks-on-response-to-unionization/

[mopinko]

1. was talking to an old friend whose daughter manages a store in a very rich hood.

she's very good, consistently gets- walks on water- type reviews, store is consistently top rated.
and her employees adore her.

but she's quaking in her boots because the managers whose stores have gone union get fired.
now, i assume there is a high correlation between idiot managers and employees feeling like they need a union. but that doesnt seem like a plan they can stick w for long.

hopefully she's fine in all this, but i rly dont get how a company that made it's rep by being a good place to work feels like they have so much to lose w a contract.
seems like an admission they're full of shit w that.