Tell Starbucks to Re-Hire Workers Who Were Fired While Unionizing

Starbucks Corporate & Regional Managers

photo of seven Starbucks workers in Starbucks United tshirts, leaning against a mural wall depicting the "I am a Man" march
photo by Amy Holden

Starbucks workers in stores across the country have been fighting to unionize.

On MLK Day - January 17th, 2022 - Starbucks workers at the 3388 Poplar Avenue store in Memphis filed a petition to join the unionization efforts. Over the following weeks, management targeted the union-organizing committee members by cutting their hours, beginning a large hiring effort at that store, and then subsequently firing seven of the most outspoken pro-union workers.

It is clear that Starbucks targeted these workers for their unionizing efforts, which is a violation of the labor laws that protect workers' rights to unionize. Sign this petition to tell Starbucks that we stand behind the Memphis 7 and we demand that they stop their union-busting tactics, give these workers their jobs back, and allow them to exercise their right to form a union without harassment.

To: Starbucks Corporate & Regional Managers
From: [Your Name]

What you did was illegal and immoral. We stand behind the Starbucks workers in Memphis and across the country who are exercising their right to form a union.

It's time to do the right thing: give the fired workers their jobs back so they can continue their union-organizing efforts and stop the harassment and union-busting tactics by Starbucks Corporation and its managers.