Take Action with Organizing Starbucks Workers This Labor Day Weekend!

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Our fellow coffee and food workers at Starbucks stores across the country have been organizing for change at work, including forming Starbucks unions, and UFCW 3000 members have been taking action alongside them here in our area. This weekend, Starbucks Workers United are asking allies to join "Sip-In" actions on Sunday and Monday, by visiting specific Starbucks locations at certain times and showing support for the organizing effort. We encourage any UFCW 3000 members to join in solidarity if you can.

More information about these actions is in the flyer and below, and further Starbucks solidarity actions are planned for later this month, on Tuesday September 13. Find that 9/13 event information on our events calendar >>.

When workers are organizing, especially in our region or industries, we stand with them because we know that it takes a powerful, united movement of working people to make real change. And during our contract negotiations and workplace actions, other workers, unions, and community groups stand with us.

Want to get more involved in supporting organizing efforts at Starbucks? Sign the "No Contract, No Coffee" pledge, or get in touch with your Union Rep about ways our union is supporting these workers.

Labor Day Weekend Actions at Seattle Starbucks Locations:

SUNDAY SEPT 4

  • 11am: Broadway & Denny Sip-In

    101 Broadway E, Seattle

  • Noon: University Way Sip-In

    4147 University Way NE, Seattle


MONDAY SEPT 5

  • 10am: Holman Road Sip-In

    9999 Holman Rd NW, Seattle

  • 2pm: Reserve Roastery Sip-In

    1124 Pike St, Seattle

How to Participate:

  • Order simple drinks! Avoid Frappuccinos, Refreshers, or anything with cold foam (or just get a water if you don't want to give Howard Schultz your money)

  • Give your name as: "Union Strong," "Workers Rights," "Solidarity," etc. (if you use the Starbucks app, change your name in the app, as it puts your name in automatically)

  • Leave thank-you notes and words of encouragement on community boards. Tell workers how inspiring they are!

  • Encourage customers to tip

  • Sign the "No Contract, No Coffee" pledge

UFCW 3000 Stands with Starbucks Workers United

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UFCW 3000 is disappointed to learn of the latest union-busting activity by the Starbucks Corporation, which has announced closures at ten locations which either organized or were engaged in the process of organizing with Starbucks Workers United. The company’s blatant disregard for workers’ free and fair choice to form a union is disgusting and we condemn the union-busting behavior by Howard Schultz and Starbucks management.

At UFCW 3000 we stand with the more than 200 Starbucks stores which have organized with Starbucks Workers United and will do anything we can to support the courageous workers who have stood up to this greedy corporation. We continue to wholeheartedly back these workers in their efforts to achieve a fair contract with Starbucks management. Our members and staff have walked the picket lines alongside striking Starbucks workers in Washington state and we will continue to aid them however we can.

We understand the most recent store closure in Seattle, at the Holman Road location, is slated to become a licensed location operated by the Kroger Corporation. As a result of our hard-fought victories against Kroger over the years, all workers hired into QFC stores become union members. As such, workers in the reopened location will receive the pay increases, contract, health care, pension, just cause, and other rights and benefits of a UFCW 3000 union contract. We demand that Starbucks work with Kroger to provide the Holman Road workers a just transition to the QFC-operated store and insist that any currently employed Starbucks worker be offered continued and uninterrupted employment and full credit for all time worked for Starbucks.

Furthermore, UFCW 3000 calls on Howard Schulz and Starbucks management to cease and desist from any further store closures and bargain fairly with the organized workers of Starbucks Workers United. We will continue to connect our own member leaders who work at the licensed Starbucks stores with the worker leaders of Starbucks Workers United, because when we fight together, we win. These member leaders of UFCW 3000 working inside our Starbucks union grocery stores have some of the best union contract language in the nation and it shows that a Starbucks store and a quality union contract can work just fine together.