UCLA, UC Riverside students petition to remove Starbucks from campuses, they want the licensing agreements suspended until the company ends its union-busting campaign ( www.dailynews.com )

snownyte , 4 months ago

In a show of solidarity, the students plan to deliver petitions with more than 1,500 signatures to the two universities this week.

Petitions. Don't. Work. Especially with 1,500 signatures, because Starbucks will just scoff at that and carry on. Really dumb move, guys. If this somehow works then fine but historically speaking, has petitioning ever worked?

“As a company, we respect our partners’ right to organize, freely associate, engage in lawful union activities and bargain collectively without fear of reprisal or retaliation — and remain committed to our stated aim of reaching ratified contracts for union-represented stores in 2024,” he said.

Except the part that you guys elect to omit, is that you've purposefully allowed stores to unionize and then you've went to shut them down. You're full of shit, sir.

The raise management was referring to is an automatic pay hike workers already get each year, Gillespie said.

That's corporate tactics for you.

Maestro , 4 months ago

The petitions are for the universities, not starbucks. They may not scoff at 1500 signatures.

snownyte , 4 months ago

They might not, they may, we'll see. I did look at the article again to note that there actually had been a couple of successful victories already with other universities where they would not renew contracts with starbucks. While it is likely that Riverside might join those victories, I'm a half-glass empty kind of person saying that there's a chance it might not.