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Michael Vestigo of Kansas City, Kansas, who claims he was fired by Starbucks, speaks while dressed as Apollo the Wolf during the 'Fight Starbucks' Union Busting' rally and march in Seattle on April 23. Union organizers say that the company's tactics are working: Starbucks' sustained campaign has had its intended chilling effect. 'We respect our partners' right to organize but believe the best future is created directly with partners and not a third party,' company spokesman Reggie Borges said in a statement. So far, NLRB regional offices around the country have issued 35 formal complaints against Starbucks, citing the company for coercing, threatening and firing employees over their union activities and withholding wage increases and benefits from unionizing stores. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is tasked with investigating the more than 325 unfair labor practice charges brought by the union. Starbucks has forged ahead with these actions despite being charged with violating the federal labor law that protects workers' rights to organize. Under its legendary CEO Howard Schultz, who returned to lead Starbucks in April, the company has taken a wide array of measures to aggressively fight the union - from blanketing employee communications with anti-union messaging, including in one-on-one meetings, to announcing raises and benefits for nonunion stores only, to firing workers identified as union leaders. Organizers blame the slowdown in their momentum on what they call Starbucks' 'scorched-earth' campaign to crush the union. Starbucks is facing more than 325 unfair labor practice charges The flood of activity in the first half of the year, with a high of 71 petitions filed in March, gave way to a summer lull, with eight petitions filed in August. What's more, the number of stores petitioning to hold union elections has dropped dramatically in recent months. The numbers showcase how Starbucks baristas have turned a grassroots campaign into a national labor movement with lightning speed.īut they hide another plain truth, which is that unionized stores make up less than 3% of the 9,000 company-operated Starbucks stores around the country. In the past week, Starbucks locations in Washington, D.C., Albuquerque, N.M., and Westlake, Ohio, became the latest to join the national union Workers United. Even more remarkable is that 80% of them, or around 245 stores, have gone in favor of forming a union. Starbucks said on a company blog that labor law requires it to negotiate any changes in benefits or working conditions with the union representing those employees.So far, more than 300 Starbucks stores in close to three dozen states have had union elections - a stunning number, given not a single company-owned store had a union at this time last year.

Bargaining is tentatively set to begin on various days this month at some stores.Īugust, the National Labor Relations Board accused Starbucks of illegally withholding raises from unionized workers. Starbucks is 'weaponizing benefits and wage increases to discourage workers from organizing,' Warren said in emailed remarks to Reuters. But some other enhanced benefits, including hourly pay hikes, were given only to employees who are not in a union. The company has been boosting benefits, including expanded coverage for adoption services on Monday that applied to all employees.

They also asked for a list of changes the Seattle-based chain has made to benefits for non-unionized employees.

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The Senators also said in their letter that they want to see the guidance Starbucks gave to managers about how to deal with workers organizing unions and whether its spending expenditures to counter unions were listed in its tax filings. locations have voted to unionize in just over the past year. Employees at about 245 out of Starbucks' nearly 9,000 company-owned U.S.

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