#StickItToStarbucks: Workers’ Rights Activists Stand in Solidarity with Starbucks Workers United
Starbucks Workers United, Workers United, SEIU, allied organizations, and global labor partners, host a global day of action in a massive show of support for Starbucks workers fighting for a seat at the table
On Tuesday, April 11, 2023, Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) is calling on students, faculty, staff, and community members at colleges and universities to help send one million messages to Starbucks to support workers’ rights. As key Starbucks consumers, the campaign makes young people, young workers and their communities uniquely positioned to put pressure on the company to put an end to their anti-union activities by flooding Starbucks’ notifications with messages of solidarity with SBWU.
As Starbucks’ new CEO, Laxman Narasimhan, enters his fourth week on the job, this campaign aims to ensure that Narasimhan fully recognizes the opportunity to have a fresh start and make a change on how Starbucks interacts with SBWU, compared to previous union-busting efforts under former CEO Howard Schultz. Dozens of workers’ rights organizations, activists and supporters shared the below letter of solidarity sent to Narasimhan.
The campaign also aims to highlight the power of over 7,500 workers who have been actively organizing to return to Starbucks’ mission and values – including racial justice, inclusivity, and sustainability.
Learn More
Since December 2021, Starbucks workers have won unions at nearly 300 stores in 40 states – over 7,500 workers who have been actively organizing to return to Starbucks’ mission and values. Our movement stands for racial and climate justice, and equity and inclusivity for workers and customers.
Starbucks has been engaged in an unprecedented union-busting campaign, which has resulted in hundreds of Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges having been filed against it. Dozens of those allegations have been found meritorious, and numerous NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) judges have determined that Starbucks’ activities were illegal. One NLRB judge recently found Starbucks to have engaged in “egregious and widespread misconduct.”
Take Action
Post on social media (Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, etc.) with a message of support for SBWU members and call on Starbucks to respect workers’ rights & stop union busting! Be sure to tag @Starbucks using the hashtags #StarbucksUnion, #1MillionForSBWU, and #RespectSBWorkers in your post! See sample content here for inspiration or to copy+paste!
Sign and share the petition to urge Starbucks’ new CEO to build a healthy relationship with baristas and work together with SBWU.
Print this poster and post a selfie or video with it outside of a Starbucks to social media tagging @Starbucks using the hashtags #StarbucksUnion and #StickItToStarbucks. You can also submit the post for cross-promotion here.
ABOUT STARBUCKS WORKERS UNITED
Starbucks Workers United is a collective of Starbucks Partners across the United States who are organizing our workplaces with the support of Workers United Upstate, a union with experience building barista power.
ABOUT WORKERS UNITED
Founded by immigrant garment workers, Workers United, affiliated with SEIU, has a long track record of fighting for workers’ rights. Today, Workers United represents workers across many industries — laundries and warehouses, textile factories and manufacturing plants, and restaurants and coffee shops. Our union believes in building power by organizing all of the workers in an industry, strengthening solidarity and power. We believe that an injury to one is an injury to all and that the only way to act on that value is to stand in solidarity with our coworkers and other workers in our industry.
ABOUT SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION (SEIU)
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is an organization of 2 million members united by the belief in the dignity and worth of workers and the services they provide and dedicated to improving the lives of workers and their families and creating a more just and humane society.
STAY CONNECTED WITH SWU:
Twitter: @SBWorkersUnited
Instagram: @sbworkersunited
Website: sbworkersunited.org