For more than a year, workers have joined together, raised their voices, cast ballots and gone on strike to demand Starbucks respect their right to a union. Workers are asking for simple things, like a voice in their workplace over pay and scheduling. Starbucks, which posted $3.3 billion in profits last year, has responded with a brutal, bullying anti-union campaign of threats, intimidation, firings, store closings and refusing to meet workers at the bargaining table–becoming the most prolific union buster in U.S. history.

On the eve of the 2023 Starbucks Annual Shareholders Meeting, March 22, 2023, Starbucks will host a celebration of CEO Howard Schultz in Seattle. That same day, workers and their allies will converge on downtown Seattle to make it an accountability day and call on Howard Schultz and his board of directors to STOP UNION BUSTING and come to the table to bargain with workers. In solidarity with the flagship event in Seattle, Starbucks workers are asking us to take action across the country to hold Starbucks accountable.