Howard scholtz recently held a meeting with managers nation wide. According to labor historian nelson lichenstein lichtenstein, he wrote that starbucks store managers are unreliable union busters. The first thing that became clear in the leak video is that starbucks employees were terrified of what had just happened at philadelphia. We're practically pleading with store managers to get behind the corporate effort," says Schultz.
Live from New York: Dan interviews Amazon Labor Union president Chris Smalls, Jaz Brisack of Starbucks Workers United, SEIU Local 1199NE president Rob Baril, Jacobin writer Alex Press, and Labor Notes writer Luis Feliz Leon on the return of labor militancy that we see sweeping Amazon, Starbucks, and workplaces all around the US.
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