Hundreds of Starbucks workers from coast to coast are striking to send the company’s new CEO, Laxman Narasimhan, a message to break the trend and bring an end to the company’s fierce union-busting campaign.
The workers are also asking for better conditions like livable wages, consistent hours and the ability to unionize and organize their workplaces without interference from the company, according to a press release. The company has indeed pulled out a dizzying array of anti-union tactics as workers have organized their union, including firing workers in retaliation for unionizing and permanently shutting down stores that have unionized or are unionizing.
“Wednesday’s day of action will also serve to welcome the company’s new chief executive, Laxman Narasimhan, and send him a message that the transition in the C-Suite provides an opportunity for the company to stop its unprecedented campaign of union busting and instead partner with its workers and our union to build a company that truly lives up to its stated progressive values,” says the press release.
in similarly-sized strikes to protest the company’s union busting; in November, the union staged a “Red Cup Rebellion” on the company’s “Red Cup Day,” in which the company rakes in some of its highest profits of the year and gives out branded red cups to customers.is widely read among people with lower incomes and among young people who are mired in debt. Our site is read at public libraries, among people without internet access of their own.
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