Starbucks launches aggressive anti-union effort as upstate New York stores organize
by Michael Sainato from US news | The Guardian on (#5S81B)
Management urges baristas to reject the union at mandatory listening' sessions and shuts stores holding drives
Will Westlake, a Starbucks barista in Hamburg, New York, whose store recently filed for a union election, was told by a manager he could attend an earlier mandatory anti-union meeting on 8 November because he was scheduled to work early the next day.
The meeting was in a nearby hotel and when Westlake arrived he found out he was the only worker in attendance, with six members of Starbucks management. The meeting lasted for about one hour.
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