Standing in Solidarity With Starbucks Workers
Over the past year, Starbucks workers across the country have taken risks to demand what every worker deserves: dignity, fair pay, and safe working conditions. Their movement has only grown in response to Starbucks’ historic union-busting and its failure to finalize a fair contract. Now, baristas in 25 new cities have joined an escalating unfair labor practice strike.
Here in New Hampshire, that fight is close to home. Workers at the Seabrook Crossing, Stratham, and Epping Starbucks locations have been organizing their stores and their communities — circulating “No Contract, No Coffee” pledge cards to customers who are ready to stand with them should a strike be called.
Starbucks, Seabrook Crossing
In April, the Seabrook Crossing baristas voted to form their union. Less than a year later, they’re being met with union-busting instead of good-faith bargaining. Workers have raised clear and urgent economic proposals around pay and staffing, along with a list of unfair labor practices that simply cannot be ignored.
As a union organizer, I will always stand in solidarity with workers fighting for fair contracts. These workers are standing up not only for themselves, but for every worker who’s been told to do more with less, to accept unsafe conditions, or to stay quiet in the face of retaliation.
Their courage strengthens our entire community (their coffee helps too), and they deserve a contract that reflects it.
- Carleigh