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Starbucks closed about 250 US stores with barely 48 hours’ notice, timed just 6 days before the end of its fiscal year. Totally a coincidence, we’re sure.  These stores didn’t need to close. Execs could have listened to the baristas who know exactly how to make a store thrive, but instead, workers got a two-day heads-up and a pat on the back.   Help us get the word out: like and share this post so everyone sees what “Back to Starbucks” really means. |
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Now here’s the plot twist.  Only a handful of the closing stores were union, and those baristas got to bargain about how those closures will impact them. Because they’re organized, Starbucks was legally required to sit down and bargain with them, and they just wrapped up with some big wins.   More transfers, fewer layoffs. Way more union baristas are being offered transfers than in last year’s closures. A fair process, in writing. An enforceable agreement that every union barista gets treated fairly: transfer or severance. The right to say no. If a transfer doesn’t work, union baristas can turn it down and STILL get severance and unemployment. |
Baristas at non-union stores don’t get that protection. If they turn down a transfer, Starbucks calls it quitting, which means no severance and no unemployment. 
Same company, same closures, and a wildly different outcome depending on whether you have a union.
It’s never been clearer how powerful baristas are when they come together and fight for their union rights. 
And when a federal appeals court is calling Starbucks a “repeat violator” of labor law, maybe it’s time for leadership to stop blaming everyone else.
The easiest way to have baristas’ backs? Boycott Starbucks until they sign a fair union contract. 
No contract, no coffee.
In solidarity,
Starbucks Workers United
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