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News Article ● Unionization

How to Start a Union at Your Company

April 8, 2022 //

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News Article ● Labor Unionization

Labor foe Schultz returns as Starbucks union effort grows

March 22, 2022 // “He took it really personally that his workers wanted to be part of a union, because he thought with him in charge they wouldn’t need it,” said Pam Blauman-Schmitz, a retired union representative who worked to organize Starbucks’ first stores in the early 1980s. “He would say stuff like, ‘Maybe you need unions in the coal mines, but not at Starbucks stores.”