'Starbucks workers are winning in location after location.'
Schultz as he resumed his position as CEO this year,"If Starbucks can afford to spend $20 billion on stock buybacks and dividends and provide a $20 million compensation package to its CEO, it can afford a unionized workforce that can collectively bargain for better wages, better benefits, safer working conditions and reliable schedule."
"Please respect the Constitution of the United States and do not illegally hamper the efforts of your employees to unionize," Sanders wrote in a March letter to the billionaire executive."Congratulations to Starbucks Workers United for winning the 100th union election at Starbucks coffee shops all over America," he wrote.
"I say to Howard Schultz: Stop the union-busting," he continued."Obey the law. Negotiate a fair contract with your workers now—no more delays. Enough is enough."
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