Why people are boycotting Starbucks

In 1998 Howard Schultz ( president and CEO of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, from 2008 to 2017, and as interim CEO since 2022.) , went to Isr@el to receive the 'Isr@el 50th Anniversary Award.'

In this Seattle Times article, you will see MANY familiar names that met with Netanyahu to receive this award.

The relationship between him and Isr@el, even if he hasn't been vocal about his support of Israel, is still pretty close!

I mean, why else would he receive an award with other politicians as the CEO of a coffee company?

Let's move on to the lawsuit between Starbucks and its Union.

Starbucks was furious after its Union page voiced support for Palestinians and said that their use of the name Starbucks confused and angered customers.

They also claimed that customers were taking out that anger on employees.

The part that angered Palestinian supports was when Starbucks came out with this statement:

This attack on the pro-Palestine movement left a very bitter taste in people's mouths and people began to boycott them.

Another reason to boycott Starbucks is that their workers are treated like garbage.

Here's an article from last year on why employees were on strikes and what they experienced at work.

Starbucks announced on Wednesday that Schultz would be stepping down from the company’s board — with some outlets maintaining his anti-union stance had become a “distraction” that was hurting the company’s image.  It’s a testament to the movement Starbucks workers have built: a movement capable of taking on a billion-dollar corporation and holding it to account.  It’s been a long time coming. Starbucks workers have fought tirelessly across the country for fair pay, safe working conditions, and dignity on the job. So far, workers at 449 stores in 46 states have filed to unionize, and 356 Starbucks stores have already won their elections. The company has fought worker organizing at every turn: It has been prosecuted for violating labor law in over 2,000 instances, according to the campaign.  Schultz himself has in many ways been the face of Starbucks’ vicious opposition to worker organizing. “Under Schultz’s leadership,” writes the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, “Starbucks has adopted an aggressively anti-union stance that is reflected in Schultz’s public statements, the company’s communications to workers, and its scorched-earth approach to blocking unionization activity.”

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Howard Schultz

Watch "Starbucks: A Grande Union Busting With Two Pumps of Racism" on YouTube

Now that's a teardown.

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Howard Schultz’s union busting effects every worker, not just Starbucks workers- this can set precedent to harm the entire labor movement.

Use signal for your private organizing communications, clear old convos and stay frosty comrades.

Excerpt from my "Coffeepunk" dark fantasy novel

Elders of Clan Gor'Golakh, this humble traveler from afar brings unto ye tribute, and evidence of his pilgrimage to lands hostile to man. *Kneels and pulls a really oily and mushy body-warm starbucks cake pop out of his linty pocket* Now let me lay with thine womenfolk, so that my bloodline- brought to ruin by Lord Howard the Schultz- may live on through the children they bear of my seed.

March 28, 2023

Starbucks projects the image of an employee-friendly company, but its workers have been exposing the contradiction between the company’s words and its actions.

On March 29, they’ll get some help from the U.S. Senate’s HELP Committee, chaired by Bernie Sanders. The Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has called Howard Schultz, who recently resigned as Starbucks CEO, to testify before Congress about the company’s union-busting.

Schultz is likely to be asked to explain why the company has not negotiated a contract with its union, even though the first store unionized in Buffalo in December 2021. Nearly 300 stores have now unionized with Starbucks Workers United.

Other likely questions will revolve around the anti-union onslaught workers have endured as the company has tried to stop the momentum of the union campaign. Over 80 union supporters have been fired in retaliation for organizing, the union says.

The company has committed hundreds of egregious labor law violations, according to several recent court decisions. A New York State judge ordered Starbucks to reinstate several fired “partners,” as the company calls its employees, and reopen a store it closed as retaliation for union activity.

By Jake Johnson

Common Dreams

April 2, 2023

Just days after former CEO Howard Schultz appeared before a Senate committee to face questioning over the company's brazen union-busting campaign, Starbucks fired a worker credited with sparking the organizing drive that has resulted in nearly 300 unionized shops across the United States.

Alexis Rizzo worked as a shift supervisor at Starbucks' Genesee St. location in Buffalo, one of the first two U.S. stores to win a union election in late 2021.

"Lexi Rizzo was a seven-year shift supervisor at Starbucks who ignited the Starbucks Workers United movement that took the country by storm," reads a GoFundMe page started by Starbucks Workers United organizer Casey Moore.

The page characterized Rizzo's firing as "retaliation at its worst" and asked for support to help "Lexi pay her bills as we fight for justice and her job back."

Rizzo is one of dozens of union organizers that Starbucks has fired since late 2021, according to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which has accused the company of hundreds of labor law violations. Just last month, an NLRB judge ordered Starbucks to reinstate seven Buffalo-area workers who were illegally fired.

Rizzo toldCNBC on Saturday that she is "absolutely heartbroken" by the termination, saying: "It wasn't just a job for me. It was like my family. It was like losing everything. I've been there since I was 17 years old. It's like my entire support system, and I think that they knew that."

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How guilty do you have to be to actually be afraid a senate hearing will do literally anything