May 1, 2023
April 11, 2023
- New Starbucks CEO gets a powerful welcome message from pro-labor groups: no more union busting (Fast Company)
April 1 – 2, 2023
- Starbucks fired the worker who led unionization movement, just days after former CEO grilled by Congress (Business Insider, 4/2)
- Starbucks fired the employee responsible for igniting the Starbucks Workers United union campaign (CNBC, 4/1)
March 29, 2023
- No Company is Above the Law: The Need to End Illegal Union Busting at Starbucks (HELP Committee Senate Hearing)
- Starbucks’ Union Crackdown is Backfiring Spectacularly (Newsweek)
- Starbucks Shareholders Vote to Support Worker Rights Assessment Proposal (NYC Comptroller statement)
- Swipe your badge or get fired? Employers and workers face a reckoning over returning to the office (Business Insider)
March 27, 2023
- No Company is Above the Law: Myth-Busting Starbucks’ Claims That it Has Not Violated Federal Labor Law with Impunity (Bernie Sanders written statement, HELP senate committee)
March 22 – 24, 2023
- Starbucks addresses continued labor issues at annual shareholders’ meeting (Nation’s Restaurant News, 3/24)
- Starbucks Faces Investor Pressure for Independent Review of Union Tactics (Bloomberg, 3/23)
- Starbucks workers protest before annual shareholder meeting (King 5 / Associated Press, 3/23)
- Starbucks union to greet new CEO Narasimhan with 100-cafe strike (Seattle Times / Bloomberg, 3/22)
March 20, 2023
- Starbucks’s New CEO, Laxman Narasimhan, Takes Coffee Chain’s Helm (Wall Street Journal, 3/20)
March 7 – 10, 2023
- Schultz’s Halo Slips in Starbucks Union Battle (Bloomberg, 3/10)
- Starbucks to appeal major NLRB judge ruling (Restaurant Dive, 3/8)
- NEWS: Sanders Announces Starbucks’ Schultz to Testify Before HELP Committee (help.senate.gov, 3/7)
March 4, 2023
March 2, 2023
- Starbucks faces corporate employee revolt (Restaurant Dive)
- NEWS: Following Starbucks’ Response to Subpoena Vote, Sanders Reiterates Request for CEO Schultz to Testify (help.senate.gov)
March 1, 2023
- Starbucks Faces New Front in Its Labor Disputes: White-Collar Workers (Bloomberg)
- Starbucks corporate employees sign petition to reverse return to office mandate and stop alleged union busting (Insider)
- Bernie Sanders to SUBPOENA Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz (YouTube/The Young Turks)
- Starbucks displayed ‘egregious and widespread misconduct’ in union fight, judge says (CNN)