Starbucks has announced that it will soon close yet another unionized location — the Seattle shop that was the first to unionize in the coffee giant’s home city. Workers and union representatives say the decision was clearly retaliatory.
late Monday that “what Howard Schultz fundamentally misunderstands about this movement is that we are a fucking hydra.”
“Cut down one of us, and there’s five new workers to take their place,” Moore wrote. “They can fire us, shut down our stores, send whatever messages they want to us, but WE’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE. Nowhere. Not until we win a goddamn contract and hold this company accountable for every last worker they fired and every last store they closed.”
Starbucks denies that its recent store closures had anything to do with unionization, but workers say a significant percentage of the stores shuttered were in the process of organizing. In August, Starbucks Workers UnitedLast month, Starbucks the first unionized store in Colorado Springs a day before the date that the union had requested for the first bargaining session.
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