Opinion: Starbucks’ once and future CEO and the future of the union movement. Starbucks perennial CEO and album cover, Howard Schultz, quit again this week, for the third time, but you know he’ll be back, writes Rick Salutin.
Starbucks perennial CEO and album cover, Howard Schultz, quit again this week, for the third time, but you know he’ll be back.
Sanders wants to grill Schultz on Starbucks’ appalling response to efforts by its workers, known bombastically as partners, to unionize. Through superhuman effort, they managed to get legally “certified” to bargain at about 300 of Starbucks 14,500 U.S. stores. Yet not one has a contract yet. “If they had faith in me and my motives, they wouldn’t need a union,” he says. Trump couldn’t have said it better, and didn’t. It’s true paternalism: you embrace their neediness while denying their equality. Workers rarely join unions just for money, it’s almost always about respect. Same for their bosses, who want dominance and deference.
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