We want our coffee brewed by UNION baristas.
Today, we are in solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org on their Day of Action and call on everyone to refuse to patronize non-union standalone Starbucks stores, and to delete the Starbucks app on your phone.
No Contract. No Coffee. No app. #DeleteTheApp
“It was very powerful for them to see that the store can’t run without us.”
Starbucks workers in Texas are organizing, striking, and standing together in solidarity.
(via @texasobserver.org)
Tldr: Starbucks workers actually make less than workers at Dollar General, McDonalds, and a whole bunch of other places
Actual good and hopeful news today. Take that, all the bad and stupid news!
Let’s Go!! Starbucks baristas just can’t stop winning!
These cuties jumped at the chance to vote Union Yes! We’re so excited to welcome the newest kids on the block from Santee, CA!
They join the over 11,000 already Union Starbucks workers across the country!👏✊🎉
“Understaffed stores have led to long wait times for customers while baristas who want more hours aren’t getting enough to pay their bills,” said Jasmine Leli, a Buffalo, NY, barista and member of the Starbucks Workers United bargaining team.
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573 baristas in 29 Starbucks stores in Texas are unionized. And it’s growing. @sbworkersunited.org
www.texasobserver.org/contract-neg...
"There are companies that think that exploitation is a viable business model.
They are wrong."
- @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Solidarity from Pittsburgh. You got this!
A group of 6 wear SBWU shirts and celebrate their union victory.
While Starbucks is dumping loads of money into Coachella influencers and ChatGPT partnerships, baristas are organizing unions ✊
CONGRATULATIONS to workers in Johnson City, Tennessee. They just won their union election! 🔥
No contract, No Starbucks!!
Starbucks is partnering with ChatGPT.
The coffee giant has launched an app within the OpenAI chatbot that is supposed to "provide inspiration for customers’ drink orders."
Consumers will still need to complete their orders on the Starbucks app or website.
Ridiculous. Just pay your baristas a living wage!
Reminder: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS until the company does right by its workers and finalizes a fair contract.
nocontractnocoffee.org
Friends - come to this call tonight!
Mina Leon at the lectern flanked by union workers
"I know that with the help of everyone in this room we can win a first contract at Starbucks." @sbworkersunited.org member Mina Leon. Support workers like Mina > unionnow.org #UnionNow
Friends - come to this call tonight!
A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much.
Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment.
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THESE are the free Starbucks drinks at Coachella?? 🧐
About a week ago, union baristas & allies participated in No Kings rallies nationwide and shared what we're up against at Starbucks.
Corporate greed makes everything worse - but we know when we stand together, change is possible.
Until we win a contract, DELETE THE STARBUCKS APP off your phone!
UNION NOW Building the Labor Movement with Bernie, Sara Nelson, and Mayor Zohran K. Mamdani Terminal 5, 610 West 56th Street, New York NY Sunday, April 12 • Doors: 12PM • Program: 2PM
NYC: Join the Union Now rally on 4/12 featuring @sanders.senate.gov, @flyingwithsara.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, plus Ed Dupree from the Philly Whole Foods campaign. RSVP below 👇
whoa
did you hear that?
oh! that's...
that's the sound of workers at TWO starbucks locations winning their union elections😎!
CONGRATS to baristas in Hillsboro, OR and San Antonio, TX who are standing up to demand better from the biggest coffee chain on the planet!
A simple poster with 3D text that says BARGAINING UPDATE CALL - APRIL 14, 5:30pm PT, 8:30pm ET - RSVP @ bit.ly/aprilSBWU. Graphics include the Starbucks Workers United logo and a large group of SBWU bargaining delegates raising their fists up and wearing SBWU shirts.
ALLIES: It's time for a call to action!
Join us on April 14th to hear directly from baristas, get an update on bargaining with Starbucks, and learn how YOUR support can make a real difference for workers everywhere.
RSVP today and we'll send you a Zoom link before the call! bit.ly/aprilSBWU
Here's a shot of good news for your Saturday:
Congratulations to Starbucks workers in Greeley, Colorado just won their union election!! LET'S GOOOOO 🔥
If Starbucks wants Seattle to love them, Starbucks can love us first. A big way to show that love is to stop standing in the way of unions.
*Microsoft* can be neutral when employees want to unionize, so can Starbucks (instead of threatening us with Tennessee).
A photo of the Pike Place starbucks in Seattle Washington
We, the partners at Pike Place #301, are excited to announce our intent to unionize with Starbucks Workers United. As partners of the first Starbucks, we’ve decided to form a union to uphold the core values of our company and the Pike Place Market: fair and equal treatment, respect, and dignity for every single partner who makes this store so special. Thousands of partners around the country are working together to fight for a better workplace, and we look forward to joining them. Starbucks as a company was built on the core pillars of belonging, courage, and joy. Sadly, under your leadership – in our store and so many others – Starbucks has lost its way and veered from the core values that defined us. Store partners are the most important part of the Starbucks experience. We open the stores every morning and close them every night. We greet customers, make the coffee, clean up the spills, and remember our regulars’ names and favorite orders. But beneath the veneer of the excellent experience we craft for visitors every day, partners do not feel a sense of belonging and joy – unequal treatment is the norm, not the exception. When we speak up, that courage is punished, not rewarded. That has been most evident with Starbucks dispatching two national labor relations personnel to our store to surveil partners after the company heard we were discussing unionization, raising tension in the store that can be felt by both workers and customers. The market's founding gave us clear directions: "It is for you to defend, to protect and to uphold, and it is for you to see that those who occupy it treat you fairly; that no extortion be permitted and that the purpose for which it was created be religiously adhered to." The path to our union may be challenging, but we know this: We are better working together as a team, we have each others’ backs, and we respect everyone’s right to make their own choice. We call on Starbucks to live up to the core values of courage, joy, and be…
Today, the "original" Starbucks at Pike Place Market in Seattle, is announcing they're organizing their union. ✊
Read the letter workers addressed to CEO Brian Niccol about why they're joining thousands of workers nationwide fighting for a better Starbucks:
Trans rights are labor rights. Always. ✊🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
“when you look at what has happened inside Starbucks over just the last four years… you are not looking at a company that made some mistakes. You are looking at a mega corporation that made a choice, over and over again, to not invest in the people who make that promise possible in the first place.’
