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The company’s overall reaction, though, is utterly unoriginal. It’s the same knee-jerk opposition to unions that we’ve seen since the 1800s, with a few just-as-hoary variations. Instead of beating people up, Starbucks uses other well-worn approaches, from gaslighting (“Everything’s great”) to good cop/bad cop (“We love you! But we closed the store—for other reasons—after you asked for a union.”) American employers’ anti-union playbook is so standardized that one union in another industry has even come up with a bingo board of typical management talking points during an organizing drive.
Starbucks is great at inventing fantastical coffee concoctions—and creakingly orthodox in its opposition to its workers’ desire for a union. If the company wanted to demonstrate real innovation and imagination, it would realize that a different approach—recognizing and working with the union—could be a powerful competitive advantage and actually benefit the business.
Starbucks: Purveyor of Fresh Coffee and Stale Union-Busting
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Management’s old-school battle against its Buffalo baristas’ organizing campaign reveals a failure to recognize how unionization can align the company with its consumers.A Union Is Brewing at Starbucks
A Union Is Brewing at Starbucks
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Workers say the company doesn’t live up to its progressive promises and is trying to stop them from organizing.
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“Starbucks takes its union-free status extremely seriously and has reason to be worried. One of the nation’s most effective unions – Workers United – is leading an organizing effort for Buffalo, New York baristas and is mounting a very smart strategic campaign. They may very well win.
“This is, after all, the same union and lead organizer – Richard Bensinger, former Organizing Director of the AFL-CIO – that successfully organized the baristas at Gimme! Coffee in Upstate New York in 2017, in one of the first NLRB election victories in this industry.
Starbucks has ‘reason to be worried’ ahead of union vote | Cornell Chronicle
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Starting Wednesday, workers at three Starbucks coffee shops in and around Buffalo, New York will have four weeks to vote on whether to unionize. Kate Bronfenbrenner says Starbucks has reason to be wor...fuck ye union power! <3✊
The elections involve only around 100 employees, but a vote to unionize would be among the embattled U.S. labor movement’s highest-profile organizing victories in years, creating a foothold at an iconic global brand. It would also extend U.S. workers’ recent momentum into a new arena — the company’s ubiquitous coffee shops, visited by millions of Americans each day, where past organizing efforts have repeatedly fizzled.
“It’s a much bigger deal than the number of people would suggest,” said former NLRB chair and union attorney Wilma Liebman, given how a union victory at Starbucks would create new inroads in the broader restaurant industry. “Winning is contagious, and it could spread like wildfire.”
Starbucks Union Vote Sets Up Watershed Moment for U.S. Labor
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Winning a unionization vote at one of the country’s signature non-union firms, Starbucks, would be an audacious coup