Today, Starbucks workers at four unionized Starbucks stores across New Jersey and Connecticut are on an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike. The strike protests Starbucks management discharging a Montclair, New Jersey, shift supervisor for participation in union activities.
The following stores will be on strike today in a show of solidarity:
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40 S. Park St., Montclair, NJ
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2 Beechwood Rd., Summit, NJ
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401 Rt. 10, Ledgewood, NJ
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Berkshire Center, Danbury, CT
“Our national union effort demands that we stand with our partners everywhere to protest Starbucks’ unfair labor practices, which affect all of us in our fight for good-faith bargaining and a contract that addresses our needs as workers,” said Theresa Buchta, Danbury barista.
So far, in 22 out of 23 decisions, administrative judges have found that Starbucks committed more than 230 federal labor law violations, including 30 unlawful discharges. The NLRB has issued 82 additional complaints against Starbucks awaiting disposition by administrative judges, encompassing about 240 charges and alleging over 1,350 violations, including more than 70 discharges.
Starbucks Workers United is the union drive that has taken the labor movement by storm. Since December 2021, over 9,000 workers in more than 350 Starbucks stores in 38 states and the District of Columbia have successfully unionized. Starbucks workers have formed more new unions at a single company than any campaign in the 21st century.