Starbucks Workers United is asking for your help as we fight for our union contracts. Right now, baristas at nearly 500 unionized Starbucks stores are making progress at the bargaining table. But before we head back at the end of the month, we're asking for solidarity from all of our allies! With the recent news that Starbucks is replacing their CEO, effective immediately, it's even more important to demonstrate the broad public support for our union! From Friday, August 23 to Monday, August 26 we're asking allies like you to join our next Red for Bread weekend! Put on something red and stop by your local union Starbucks (map here) to order a beverage under the name “UNION STRONG.” While you’re at it, please share some words of encouragement to baristas who are more than RED-dy for a collective bargaining agreement! Ready to join us? Pledge now! Want to do more, and host a community event to support bargaining baristas? Click here to learn more.

What happens in the coming bargaining sessions will reverberate across the country. Let union Starbucks baristas know you stand with them!

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Stand with Starbucks workers who deserve a union. Starbucks should sit down and negotiate fairly with its workers rather than break the law and attempt to prevent employees from making improvements!

Starbucks workers are engaged in one of the most visible, national organizing campaigns in decades. For more than a year, thousands of Starbucks workers have voted, marched, petitioned and protested to demand Starbucks respect their right to a union so they have a voice in their workplace over pay, scheduling and more. Starbucks, which posted $3.3 billion in profits last year, has responded with a brutal, bullying anti-union campaign of threats, intimidation, firings, store closings and refusing to meet workers at the bargaining table–becoming one of the most prolific union-busters in modern U.S. history. Its relentless campaign of union busting, has involved over 200 violations of federal labor law, according to administrative judges, including 30 unlawful discharges – runs counter to Starbucks’ carefully-cultivated image as a progressive company. Starbucks cannot be an industry-leading, forward-thinking employer AND the country’s leading union-buster. Now, more than ever, we must stand with Starbucks workers and demand Starbucks lives up to the values it claims to hold. To learn more about Starbucks Workers United and what workers are asking for, visit: https://sbworkersunited.org/

Over 3,000 workers just came together across the country to “Strike with Pride” and stood up to Starbucks’ egregious union-busting and their failure to bargain with workers over the change in policy over pride decorations. We have momentum on our side, and we need your help. Join us in our new campaign, along with customers and allies, to hold Starbucks accountable and make it clear that we’re not buying its empty claims to be a good company – and that we won’t let up until Starbucks quits union busting and starts respecting worker rights.

Over 3,500 workers just came together across the country to “Strike with Pride” and stood up to Starbucks’ egregious union-busting and their failure to bargain with workers over the change in policy over pride decorations. We have momentum on our side, and we need your help. Join us in our new campaign of customers and allies to hold Starbucks accountable and make it clear that we’re not buying its empty claims to be a good company – and that we won’t let up until it quits union busting and starts respecting worker rights.

Starbucks has built its business on claims of being a progressive company. Yet all too often, its actions don't live up to these proclaimed values. Reports and videos of managers refusing to allow rainbow flags are not the first attacks on the queer workers and customers who help drive their stories. Let's hold Starbucks accountable and make it clear that we're not buying their empty claims to be a good company.

For Pride Month, companies all over the country will drape themselves in a rainbow flag, while mistreating queer workers. In many ways, Starbucks is the blueprint for this kind of company. Queer workers with Starbucks Workers United want our voices heard, and our union is how we make that happen. Together, we can let Starbucks know that to truly support LGBTQIA+ partners, they need to meet us at the bargaining table, hear what we have to say, and negotiate a contract!

Starbucks' CEO has a chance to turn the company around and treat workers with respect. Let's call on him to act! Starbucks, like so many corporations, is doing everything in its power to keep workers from winning their union and a fair contract. They know when we stand together, we're more powerful and can win the respect we've earned.

The company’s new dress code targets the self-expression of BIPOC, queer, trans, and disabled workers, while ignoring the real issues baristas face every day: understaffing, unstable schedules, and uncertain paychecks. Without a union contract, policies can change at any moment and be enforced unfairly.  Baristas keep Starbucks stores running. They deserve stability, respect, and a contract now.

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