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Michelle Eisen, a barista at the Buffalo Elmwood Starbucks location, the first Starbuck location to unionise, helps out the local Starbucks Workers United as they gather at a local union hall to cast votes to unionise or not, February 16, 2022
STARBUCKS was accused of escalating its union-busting activities in the United States today after it sacked Cassie Fletcher, a leading organiser in the successful Workers United campaign in its Buffalo store.
Ms Fletcher was told by bosses that she “no longer met the needs of the business” because she was unable to open up her availability to work more hours.
She had worked at the Elmwood store in Buffalo, the first in the global coffee chain’s recent history to unionise in December last year.
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
KEVAN NELSON reveals how, through its Organising to Win strategy, which has launched targeted campaigns like Pay Fair for Patient Care, Britain’s largest union bucked the trend of national decline by growing by 70,000 members in two years