As always these actions are made possible by the donations to our relief fund which go directly to supportIng our workers!
This holiday season say NO to Starbucks gift cards and YES to empowering labor uprising!
🚨HAPPENING NOW🚨: Workers at 505 Union Station are walking out in protest against unfair labor practices after a barista was asked to leave over union apparel. Come show support!
505 5th Ave S, Seattle WA!
BREAKING: Workers at the 5th and Pike Starbucks in downtown Seattle have just walked out on STRIKE.
@pax
crowds and dangerous understaffing have lead to unsafe conditions in the store that these brave partners refuse to tolerate anymore!
#PAXWest2023
#Solidarity
🚨STARBUCKS JUST ANNOUNCED THEY ARE CLOSING BROADWAY AND DENNY🚨
Partners at B&D were the first to unionize in sbux home city.
The company is closing the store on Dec 9th, THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST UNION WIN IN BUFFALO.
BREAKING: 505 UNION WAS JUST TOLD BY REGIONAL DIRECTOR NICA TOVEY THAT STARBUCKS IS SHUTTING DOWN THEIR STORE.
IS THIS BARGAINING IN GOOD FAITH
@HowardSchultz
@Starbucks
WE WILL NOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS
@SBWorkersUnited
After insinuating that our picket will be "unsafe", our general manager hired Pinkerton security to surveil us. By standing directly over us. Often staring directly into our tent down at us. Thanks for the thinly veiled threat!
#ToBeAPartner
#StrikeWithPride
Yesterday, a community member captured the moment our unionized friends at 29th & Willamette in Eugene, OR marched on the boss and walked out on strike.
The grievances cited included unfair dress coding, misogynistic comments, abusive behavior, and health code violations.
🚨 STRIKE ALERT 🚨
Unionizing baristas are striking at TWO SEATTLE stores today! They are standing up to Starbucks in their hometown and saying no more unfair labor practices! Join us in supporting them at the picket line and by donating to our PNW Relief Fund!
Notorious union busting group Pinkerton security is at the Seattle Starbucks Roastery because management would rather call the cops and hire dangerous security than simply talk to the workers out here today
Imagine waiting over 90 minutes in line for coffee made by managers and scabs while the
@sbworkersunited
baristas are asking you to support us by not crossing the picket line. All you gotta do is leave!
#Solidarity
#strikewithpride
A non-Starbucks location downtown reached out to one of our filed stores yesterday saying they're motivated by the
@SBWorkersUnited
movement and are working toward unionization.
When we talk about waves, this is what we mean. Workers helping workers, because the bosses won't.
Seattle Roastery mixologists just did a march on the boss with their main demand of credit card tipping and are now on a WALKOUT STRIKE!
Donate to the solidarity fund to support these workers
Workers at 5th and Pike Starbucks are on strike this weekend protesting the unfair labor practices they’re been subjected to. Starbucks staffed the store with salaried managers to open it today. We need our community to come out and tell Starbucks UNION BUSTING IS DISGUSTING!
ThursYays more like ThursYucks
These are the drinks Starbucks forces customers to abandon when wait times soar out of control on promo days in understaffed stores and upper management refuses to turn off mobile orders. Wait times at this store got up to an hour today 😩🤪🙃
HAPPENING NOW: Starbucks Workers on Strike at 505 Union Station in the International District! You’ve been meaning to get over to Uwajimaya anyway, why not stop by on your way to grab groceries? It’s the perfect excuse! We’re doing you a favor! Come tell us thanks! 😉💖✨🍱
BREAKING: 505 UNION WAS JUST TOLD BY REGIONAL DIRECTOR NICA TOVEY THAT STARBUCKS IS SHUTTING DOWN THEIR STORE.
IS THIS BARGAINING IN GOOD FAITH
@HowardSchultz
@Starbucks
WE WILL NOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS
@SBWorkersUnited
A Starbucks union election? In Seattle?
It’s more likely than you think!
Join us as we cheer on workers at our Seattle Center store as they officially join our union at 6pm TONIGHT! Zoom link ⬇️
🚨STRIKE ALERT 🚨
Our unionizing Starbucks co-workers in Marysville, WA are ON STRIKE, fighting back against severe understaffing, cuts to hours, and anti-union retaliation.
They need your support! Workers will strike again TOMORROW 4/9 @ 8 am - come join us! 17101 27th Ave NE
Had the incredible honor today of getting to chat with
@FlyingWithSara
@labornotes
about the importance of reviving the strike. At the same time back in Seattle partners at 1st & Pike were deciding to shut their store down to protest Starbucks shameless union busting there.
Verizon workers in Everett, WA won their union 11-1 today and stopped by the Everett Broadways starbucks which is unionizing for a celebratory drink!
@VzwUnion
We have the MOST amazing community supporters in Seattle!! They’ve been working the picket with us all weekend and are still going strong spreading spreading awareness and support!! WE 💖 YALL
Anon Barista: I asked my manager why my hours were cut. He said the company needed to "finish out the quarter strong" So I guess I won't be able to pay April rent because Starbucks cares more about their stock prices than their employees.
#WhyWeOrganize
Workers at 5th and Pike are percolating on their rights and are going to be hot and fresh tomorrow to get back to that picket! Come join us at 9am!! If you can’t come kick it at the picket with us, spread the word or donate to our relief fund to support your PNW baristas!!
BREAKING: In a massive win for workers Starbucks effectively admits that they broke the law by agreeing to a far reaching settlement at the NLRB in Seattle. 🧵
Scoop: Starbucks agreed to a settlement with the NLRB and
@SBWorkersUnited
for breaking labor law.
Managers illegally blocked union workers in Seattle from opportunities for extra hours at higher pay.
This is the first time Starbucks has settled a ULP.
Up and down the Puget Sound, Starbucks partners are choosing to unionize and have their voices heard!
Another store in Bellingham is joining the movement
#UnionStrong
🚨BREAKING🚨
University Way partners just WALKED OUT starting their
#RedCupRebellion
a day early!
Workers at this store have faced some extreme staffing issues on recent promo days, they told management loud and clear- NO MORE ✊🪧🌈
Starbucks workers at 7th & Washington in Eugene walked off the job today to join the city wide strike wave! “EVERY STORE IN EUGENE IS ON STRIKE- LETS GOOO” 📢 🥳🪧
Today, the 1200 Westlake Ave N baristas successfully conducted not only a walkout, but a near UNANIMOUS one, with only one manager and one supervisor remaining inside. The drive thru was SHUT DOWN twice in one week!
When workers are under attack, we stand up & fight back! ✊
Congratulations to Broadway & Denny for a successful court case!
This location will be voting soon. We're manifesting the first unionized Starbucks location in Seattle! 😉🤫
This is HUGE NEWS! Roasteries are massive businesses in this company with challenges nobody else needs to face, and we couldn't be happier to serve up a hot cup of solidarity with our partners there! ✊
The Starbucks Reserve Roastery walked out yesterday due to management refusing our reasonable demands to address the understaffing that was causing unreasonable stress to our workers. Thanks for the support!
The workers at the Broadway and Denny store in Seattle get their vote results today! Tune in at 1pm to cheer on the brave baristas taking on Starbucks in their hometown to bring the first unionized store to the west coast!
🚨STRIKE ACTION🚨
We’re serving up another piping hot cup of solidarity! Join us out in the streets picketing to support the 16 stores that were closed unjustly, starting at 1600 EvOlive Way on Friday at 9am!
#NoContractNoCoffee
HEY HEY HO HO
UNION BUSTINGS GOT TO GO
Picketing now at the Seattle Roastery with workers fighting for credit card tips and to get Starbucks to come to the bargaining table
#DoubleDownStrike
#NoContractNoGiftCards
Starbucks workers at the 5th and Pike store have been suffering from egregious understaffing for weeks. Today they had enough and walked out!
They’ll be on strike for the rest of the day, drop by and show them some solidarity if you can or donate to our relief fund!
Onlookers cheered on the workers of 29th & Willamette as they confronted the boss for his unacceptable behavior, and as they walked out. One person began a chant as the workers walked out:
“In the streets
In the fight
Workers of the world unite”
This is solidarity in action!
Secondly, people didn't seem to thrilled by them being at Pride in the first place. Turn it up and listen carefully, the crowd adopted one of our favorite chants: "The workers united will never be defeated!"
Eastlake voting unanimously for the union is impressive not because it’s the 100th win for SBWU, but because of the intense union busting they’ve faced, including firing Lindsey Price (a 17 yr partner with a perfect record) after she supported the union.
Partners at the Highway 99 & 185th Starbucks in Shoreline won their union election 18-1 with 100% turnout last night! They are the 1st store in Shoreline to unionize and the 10th store in the Seattle area!
Welcome to the union besties ✊🥳
In Starbucks' own hometown, we're standing together in solidarity to fight unfair treatment, low wages, and unsafe working conditions. We're proud to be a part of
@SBWorkersUnited
and to make our voices heard! ✊
These are conditions SBUX thinks it’s ok to work in! These are conditions SBUX thinks it ok to make and serve drinks in!! Raise your hand if you don’t want ceiling water in your latte 🙋♀️🙋🙋♂️
The iconic flagship Starbucks in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square just WON their union election in an absolute blowout!
15 - 3!
Portland is a UNION TOWN ☕️💪
STAND UP! FIGHT BACK!
Stand in solidarity with the Westlake DT partners who bravely walked out yesterday at 1pm in protest against hour cuts and short staffing, with management refusing to let them cease operations. We ceased it for them! ✊
PNW community, we need your help! We're standing up to Starbucks & showing them that we won't tolerate union busting in our neck of the woods. We're asking our amazing community to support your local organizing baristas and donating to this relief fund.
Besties this Day was NOT Yay 🫠
Are you tired of surprise promo days getting dumped on you with no extra staffing & no support from management? Cause we sure are!! We’re fighting for proper staffing in every store on every day, get in touch to get involved in winning it with us!
🚨STRIKE ALERT🚨
Lakewood Crossing partners in Marysville, WA are continuing their strike into DAY THREE
They need your support! Workers will strike again TOMORROW 4/10 @ 8 am - come join us! 17101 27th Ave NE
Today we organized again for a strike protesting the working conditions in our store. Tomorrow there will be another strike at 8am. Come support our partners 💚
Where: Starbucks - Lakewood Crossing - Marysville
17101 27th Ave A Marysville, WA 98271
When: 8am April 10th, 2022
🚨STRIKE ACTION🚨
We’re serving up another piping hot cup of solidarity! Join us out in the streets picketing to support the 16 stores that were closed unjustly, starting at 1600 EvOlive Way on Friday at 9am!
#NoContractNoCoffee
Union workers at the
@Starbucks
flagship Reserve Roastery in Seattle kicked off a 3 day strike with a late night walkout Thursday, and our picket line has been going continuously since! The store was unable to open today and we plan to keep it closed all weekend!
#UnionStrong
Stand in solidarity with organizing Seattle Starbucks workers! ✊
Starbucks is terrified of the union momentum in the hometown- they’re desperate to stop us but we won’t be stopped!! Follow the QR code to tell Starbucks management their cowardly union busting has got to go! 🗣
🚨BROADWAY ABD DENNY IS ON STRIKE!! 🚨
STARBUCKS WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH DISPLACING SO MANY OF OUR COWORKERS
JOIN US AT 101 BROADWAY E STARTING AT 7AM
#Striking101
#NoContractNoCoffee
Scab managers will keep a Starbucks staffed while it’s hourly workers are on strike outside protesting the unfair labor practices they subject them to, but I guess they draw the line at working on holidays.
The Seattle 5th and Pike
@Starbucks
is totally SHUT DOWN by UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE STRIKERS PICKETING!!
Starbucks tried to keep it open w managers yesterday but gave up today. Sunday I guess.
#UnionBustingisDisgusting
#ChangeisBrewing
Seattle is not only home to
@Starbucks
, but home to YET ANOTHER store joining the movement! A big congrats to the Elliott Ave drive-thru location for filing for a union election!
Well, we have a theory. Starbucks is wildly performative and pretends to stick up for queer partners while the public watches. It would be on brand for the partners to bounce the second they've had some limelight on the stage at 4th & Westlake 1 block earlier.
STARBUCKS WORKERS WONT BACK DOWN
SEATTLE IS A UNION TOWN
Ain’t no picket like a Seattle Roastery picket. We’re wrapped for the day but catch us again tomorrow at 9am at Madison Park and 12pm at the Roastery ✌️🥳✊
#DoubleDownStrike
Anon Barista: My hours got cut tremendously. I used to work 16-20 hrs a week now 4 hrs a week. It's not even enough to buy food for a week. And there is no announcement beforehand about it or anything. It just happened all of a sudden.
#WhyWeOrganize
🔈RALLY ALERT 🔊
Join us at CAL ANDERSON on FRIDAY December 9th
Labor orgs, teachers, and LGBTQ+ allies are observing
@sbworkersunited
one year anniversary and rallying in solidarity with the workers at the LAST REMAINING Gaybucks on the Hill on their last day of operation ✊🏳️🌈
🚨ROASTERY WALKOUT ALERT🚨
Seattle Roastery partners walked out tonight joining dozens of stores across the country who started their
#RedCupRebellion
today, with many more stores to follow tomorrow!
🗣️STARBUCKS CANNOT TO RUN AWAY FROM US ANY LONGER👏
🚨BREAKING🚨
5th and Pike partners have joined in WALKING OUT and kicking off
#RedCupRebellion
in Seattle!
The store has been chronically understaffed, when they walked out today there were only three workers to handle a full lobby.
That lobby is empty now, we are ON STRIKE!!
🚨ACTION HAPPENING NOW🚨
Starbucks workers at 505 Union are on STRIKE! They are protesting SBUX closing the store in a transparent union busting attempt!
Workers at 505 Union are bravely gathering at their workplace and invite you to come talk with us about the actual threat to our safety!
WHEN: THURSDAY 7/14/22 at 6:30a until 12p
WHERE: 505 5th AVE S, SEATTLE WA
Chats! Snacks! Arts and crafts!
#Solidarity
#ShameOnStarbucks
🚨BREAKING🚨
5th and Pike partners have joined in WALKING OUT and kicking off
#RedCupRebellion
in Seattle!
The store has been chronically understaffed, when they walked out today there were only three workers to handle a full lobby.
That lobby is empty now, we are ON STRIKE!!
🚨BREAKING🚨
University Way partners just WALKED OUT starting their
#RedCupRebellion
a day early!
Workers at this store have faced some extreme staffing issues on recent promo days, they told management loud and clear- NO MORE ✊🪧🌈
SEATTLE CUSTOMERS: Want to show support? Shop at our filed locations and be
#UnionStrong
! Whether it's mobile orders with pro union names or vocal solidarity, we love it all!
Currently, three stores in Seattle have filed for union elections. Let's talk about them!