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Leaked footage of a video call in which Starbucks’ billionaire CEO urges managers to step up their efforts to thwart worker unionization is yet another sign of the company’s growing desperation, labor advocates said on Thursday.
In the undated video published by the pro-worker media organization More Perfect Union, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz—who earlier this month became the company’s CEO for the third time—implored managers “to encourage [employees] to really understand what it might mean to vote for a union.”
Offering no evidence, Schultz—who referred to unionizing employees as “so-called workers” and “a new outside force that’s trying desperately to disrupt our company”—said, “I wasn’t there, but there are stories that people potentially had been bullied not to vote.”
Starbucks North America president Rossann Williams also appears in the video, telling managers that it’s their “number one responsibility” to “do your role” to ensure that employees “get balanced information about what’s going on.”
Williams also implored Starbucks employees to be skeptical of accounts published by workers who say they’ve experienced corporate retaliation and union-busting.
“Don’t believe everything you see in social media,” she said. “For those of you that have reached out, it’s heartbreaking. It’s heartbreaking for me to see and hear how some partners are talking about the company that I love.”
According to More Perfect Union, Starbucks has “regularly shut down stores, isolated new workers, held captive audience meetings, and subjected workers to a barrage of emails, texts, and videos with anti-union rhetoric.”
Starbucks Workers United, the union behind the organizing efforts, says it has filed more than 80 unfair labor practice complaints against the company with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
On Wednesday, Starbucks filed its own unfair labor practice charges against members of Starbucks Workers United, accusing them of a “consistent pattern of disturbing behavior.”
In response to the complaints, the union said that “Starbucks is getting desperate as it loses this war in battle after battle, because we—the Starbucks partners—continue to organize and fight for a real voice within the company. These charges are just the latest example of that desperation.”
NLRB prosecutors on Friday formally accused Starbucks of illegally firing a group of activists seeking to unionize their Memphis, Tennessee store. On Tuesday, the NLRB filed a third lawsuit against Starbucks for alleged labor violations against unionizing workers in a Phoenix store over the past four months.
Starbucks’ pushback against organizers comes amid a nationwide wave of barista unionization. Earlier this week, workers at five Richmond, Virginia stores voted to unionize, and on Thursday employees at a flagship location in the company’s hometown of Seattle elected to join Starbucks Workers United.
Since Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New York filed for a union election last summer, employees at more than 200 stores across the country have sought to unionize.
“We can resist and thrive,” said Seattle organizer Brennen Collins, “even among a storm of disinformation and fearmongering perpetrated against our best interests.”
After weeks of union busting and NLRB delays, we regret to inform you all that we were defeated 14 to 13 yes votes. We will continue organizing to protect each other and push the movement forward in Miami Springs and beyond. Thank you all for everything. Solidarity Forever ✊
— Starbucks Workers United Hialeah (@sbworkershia) April 23, 2022
Maybe many of us were vaxxed, continued to wear a mask at work when engaging in person. When eating out at first, it was outdoors, and we still wore masks until it was time to eat. Also loaded up on vitamin supplements.
wi63, You’ve been checking out William Shatner lately? That sucker is 91 y.o. He is totally lucid, and in great shape. Makes me feel guilty cos I’m dreading turning 70 this fall.
oh yeah. he survived his space trip pretty well. I am thinking he and Bernie have the same genes.
Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death
A dear “son” (I used to baby sit him and his lil sister when I was 13 years old) just sent me this link and I can’t stop groovin’ with it. Enjoy y’all. Playing for Change – Listen to the Music
Aint… you’re probably younger than me, but I have this sucker on vinyl. 🙂 🙂
Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death
BAM!! Thx obf.
Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death
Age wise, I got you beat obf. the lil sister of my “son” that I referred to above would be making 70 this year had she lived. Rock on youngster!
Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death
From the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
April 23, 2022
Dear Medicare supporter,
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it was ending the controversial Direct Contracting program and replacing it with the REACH model, the agency touted their emphasis on “equity.”
But when you look under the hood of the rebranded program, REACH is more focused on private equity than health equity.
To learn more, please join me on Monday, May 9 at 7:30 pm ET, when I’ll moderate a roundtable discussion about Direct Contracting/REACH, the dangers of privatization and so-called “value-based care,” and how to achieve true equity in our health system. Panelists include Dr. Linda Rae Murray, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, and Dr. Claire Cohen. (Bolding by me)
The program is free, but you must register in advance for access.
Sex, Death, and Empire: The Roots of Violence Against Asian Women
The line from America’s earliest empire in the Philippines to Japan, Korea, Vietnam—and anti-Asian violence at home—is straight, clear, and written in blood.
On March 11, a man with a football player’s build assaulted a 67-year-old Asian woman in Yonkers, N.Y. As she walked past him, he called out, “Asian bitch!” She ignored him. He followed her into her building and punched her from behind, knocking her to the ground. Then, over the course of one minute and 12 seconds, Tammel Esco roundhoused his fists into her—mechanically, unwaveringly—pummeling her over 125 times. He then stomped on her seven times and spat on her before walking away. The victim, whose name has not been released, was hospitalized with broken bones in her face, bleeding in her brain, and cuts and bruises across her head. Esco has been charged with attempted murder.
Four weeks before that, in the early hours of February 13, Christina Yuna Lee, a 35-year-old Korean American woman, was murdered in her apartment in New York City’s Chinatown after returning from a party. Someone had followed Lee into the building and forced his way into her apartment. One hour and 20 minutes later, she was found dead in her bathtub by police, naked from the waist up, with 40 stab wounds to her body. Her attacker, 25-year-old Assamad Nash, an unhoused man, had tried to sexually assault her. Lee died fighting back.
One hundred and twenty-five blows.
Forty stabs.
From March 2020 to December 2021, 6,506 hate incidents against Asian American and Pacific Islander women were reported to Stop AAPI Hate; the actual number is likely far greater. This is almost double the incidents reported by men. Yet media coverage of Lee’s death relegated the question of racism to a single sentence about what unnamed authorities did or did not know.
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CNN: “It’s not clear whether Lee’s race or ethnicity played a role in the attack.”
The New York Times: “The authorities have not determined that Ms. Lee was targeted because of her ethnicity.”
This is a very interesting (and sad) article telling some of the history of violence against Asian and Pacific Island women and how it is never addressed by the people (men) in charge.
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Video Reveals Starbucks CEO Urged Managers to Ramp Up Union Busting Efforts
Maybe many of us were vaxxed, continued to wear a mask at work when engaging in person. When eating out at first, it was outdoors, and we still wore masks until it was time to eat. Also loaded up on vitamin supplements.
That would be my answer as well.
Both at the same time, they both treat thier workers like shit
I’m guessing Senator Warnock knows his bill won’t pass but he stands for working families. Moreover, the fed gas tax pays for road maintenance.
Bezos to offer “Free” rocket rides to his union employees
He’s so fulluva it, he’s beyond stinking!💩💩💩💩💩
The crayon is a nice touch
A thankful T and R x 2, Ms. Benny!! 🙂
smdh
Hey guys/gals, 🙂
This is a brilliant world historical read on the Russian-Ukrainian fight.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/22/the-synthetic-left-joins-the-corporate-right-in-getting-the-ukraine-war-wrong/
I still can’t get over both sides sending troops into Chernobyl. There was no military advantage for both sides.
wi63, You’ve been checking out William Shatner lately? That sucker is 91 y.o. He is totally lucid, and in great shape. Makes me feel guilty cos I’m dreading turning 70 this fall.
oh yeah. he survived his space trip pretty well. I am thinking he and Bernie have the same genes.
A dear “son” (I used to baby sit him and his lil sister when I was 13 years old) just sent me this link and I can’t stop groovin’ with it. Enjoy y’all.
Playing for Change – Listen to the Music
Aint… you’re probably younger than me, but I have this sucker on vinyl. 🙂 🙂
BAM!! Thx obf.
Age wise, I got you beat obf. the lil sister of my “son” that I referred to above would be making 70 this year had she lived. Rock on youngster!
From the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
April 23, 2022
Dear Medicare supporter,
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it was ending the controversial Direct Contracting program and replacing it with the REACH model, the agency touted their emphasis on “equity.”
But when you look under the hood of the rebranded program, REACH is more focused on private equity than health equity.
To learn more, please join me on Monday, May 9 at 7:30 pm ET, when I’ll moderate a roundtable discussion about Direct Contracting/REACH, the dangers of privatization and so-called “value-based care,” and how to achieve true equity in our health system. Panelists include Dr. Linda Rae Murray, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, and Dr. Claire Cohen.
(Bolding by me)
The program is free, but you must register in advance for access.
TO REGISTER: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uXof9MGKTzKu4evNn131rw?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=c47ef72a-4b4b-430f-9cd7-0f909bdabb02
I am on their email list, girlfriend! 🙂
Panelists are
Sex, Death, and Empire: The Roots of Violence Against Asian Women
The line from America’s earliest empire in the Philippines to Japan, Korea, Vietnam—and anti-Asian violence at home—is straight, clear, and written in blood.
…
This is a very interesting (and sad) article telling some of the history of violence against Asian and Pacific Island women and how it is never addressed by the people (men) in charge.
At the Nation – https://www.thenation.com/article/society/anti-asian-racism-women/
Starbucks Unity rally in Richmond with Bernie. He will be on soon.