Boycott Starbucks

Understaffed. Underpaid.

Starbucks Workers United baristas have inspired people all over the world in their fight for a better future at one of the biggest global brands.

Five years and 700 union wins later, Starbucks is still refusing to finalize a fair, first union contract with reasonable pay, hours, staffing, and protections.

Starbucks fuels working people,
but it’s failing the workers
who fuel its profits.

   We’re Fed Up.   

That’s why now, working people and their allies across the nation are stepping up to back baristas.

WE’RE PROUD TO
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS
UNTIL THEIR DEMANDS ARE MET:

  • Starbucks must finalize a fair union contract
    with 12,000 local baristas and growing.

  • Workers must be able to survive on a Starbucks paycheck.
    That starts with a union contract that locks in better pay, better staffing, and enough hours to live on.

  • Starbucks has to stop breaking the law.
    They remain the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history.

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Starbucks Workers United is a bright spot in a bleak landscape: 12,000+ baristas—many of whom are young, queer, and workers of color—are organizing for a fair contract with higher pay, better staffing and hours, and an end to the company's ruthless union-busting campaign. They’re calling on everyone who supports working people over corporations to boycott Starbucks until their demands are met and a fair union contract is reached.

Union Starbucks workers are officially calling for everyone to boycott Starbucks! 

Read their statement:

We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.

What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17 per hour wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 

Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law-breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.

Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history—the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 

This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win.

No Contract? No Coffee.

Sign the Boycott Pledge

Across the country, organizations representing millions of working people are standing with union baristas and pledging to boycott Starbucks. 

Until baristas fair and reasonable demands are met, allied organizations pledge to:

  • Run a Starbucks-free organization

  • Exclude Starbucks from all events, catering, and sponsorships

  • Encourage their members and affiliates to boycott Starbucks

  • Show up and show out to help union baristas win a fair contract

Here’s who’s boycotting Starbucks:

We like our coffee union-brewed.

Baristas are taking real risks and showing the country what hope looks like. Stand with them. 

While we’re all boycotting Starbucks, support these unionized coffee shops with collective bargaining agreements: