Students plan to deliver petitions with more than 1,500 signatures to the two universities this week.
Students at UCLA and UC Riverside are demanding that their schools cut ties with Starbucks until the coffee chain ends an alleged union-busting campaign against its baristas. The students plan to hand deliver petitions with more than 1,500 signatures to the two universities this week. Students at UCLA and UC Riverside are demanding their schools cut ties with Starbucks until the coffee chain ends an alleged union-busting campaign against its baristas.
The push for higher pay and better working conditions has resulted in the unionization of more than 9,500 Starbucks employees, according to the Starbucks Workers United website. “When we graduate, we want to enter a workforce where workers have a real voice on the job with their employers,” said Eren Whitfield, a UCR Student and member of UCR Students Against Starbucks. “Bringing people together for a common purpose has been our main goal.”
The raise management was referring to is an automatic pay hike workers already get each year, Gillespie said. Starbucks’ board of directors recently released the findings of an independent third party assessment on the company’s adherence to its workers’ right to collective bargaining.
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