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Federal labor officials say Starbucks broke the law repeatedly during a union organizing campaign in Florida and should be forced to bargain with the workers there. A regional director for the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against the company, asking that a judge take the rare step of issuing a “bargaining order” for the Starbucks store in Estero, Florida.
As employees of various major corporations have revived the U.S. labor movement this year, workers at more than 200 Starbucks locations have voted to form unions. Starbucks Workers United, labor leaders, progressive lawmakers, and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have accused the company of violating federal law to quash organizing.
The tally of unionized Starbucks locations is continuing to swell. The coffee giant's CEO "Howard Schultz and Starbucks are getting creamed in union vote after union vote," labor journalist Steven Greenhouse tweeted Saturday. By the union's count, there are now 100 stores across the nation that have unionized.
Starbucks is a major buyer of Darigold Milk. Starbucks needs to take social responsibility for the products that make them profit.
Help the Darigold dairy workers of the United Farm Workers THIS FRIDAY September 28 at a Starbucks National Day of Action to support dairy workers. Just take this letter to your local Starbucks. This can happen ALL OVER THE COUNTRY!
The #Darigold Dozen held a 5-day Fast of Reconciliation in front of Darigold's headquarters from September 20-24. During that time, a delegation walked over to Starbucks headquarters and Starbucks finally met with them, but no specific promises were made.
YOU can help add impact to the farm workers' message by taking the next step. Deliver a letter to the manager at your local Starbucks store and ask them to demand that their major supplier, Darigold meet with the United Farm Workers.
Five years after Starbucks kicked off an annual competition to improve their cup design it shut the competition down, went on using the unrecyclable cups, and adopted the line that the world's taxpayers should foot the bill for upgrading recycling plants to accommodate its cups.
Consumers have wised up to the evils of GMO foods. But Monsanto’s GMOs aren’t just in our foods. Only about 20 percent of all GMO crops in the U.S. are used to make (junk) food for humans—the other 80 percent go into animal feed, ethanol and cotton. Globally, the overwhelming majority of all cotton, much of it used to make cheap clothes, is GMO.
About two months ago, things started going south, staff say. Many pin the blame on cutbacks in working hours.
Starbucks has a bigger problem than the controversy over its new red holiday cup. It's still buying palm oil and other agricultural products that might be linked to tropical forest destruction, and a coalition of science, environmental and labor organizations isn't happy about it.
Today that coalition sent a letter to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz (above) urging him to strengthen his company's procurement policy to ensure it doesn't contribute to deforestation, a significant cause of global warming. The commodities in question include wood, paper products and palm oil, an ingredient in a number of Starbucks menu items, including its Java Chip Frappuccino and Cranberry Bliss Bar.
Though this immensely popular coffee chain often tries to blend in with the health crowd, pretending to be environmentally and nutritionally conscious, the Starbucks Coffee Company is an active member of a food organization fighting to keep you and your family in the dark about genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
It's true -- Starbucks is a dues-paying member of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), which is currently trying to sue the state of Vermont for passing a law that requires GMOs to be properly labeled.
Starbucks is taking a lot of heat from consumers lately.
Multiple organizations, including OCA, have appealed to CEO Howard Schultz to switch to organic milk.
And recently, hundreds of thousands of consumers signed petitions, including ours, demanding Starbucks drop out of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), a lobbying group that is suing Vermont to overturn its GMO labeling law.
It’s no wonder Starbucks is looking for ways to polish its image. And it found one. Problem is, it doesn't address the real issues.
