The Moment for a Movement: Starbucks and the Slow Drip of Starting a Union

THE MOMENT FOR A MOVEMENT: Starbucks and the Slow Drip of Starting a Union

A UNION DAYS EVENT

Co-sponsored with Buffalo Co-Lab

April 22, 2022

12:00-2:00 P.M.

105 Ives Hall, Ithaca Campus

On Friday, April 22, 2022, the Buffalo Co-Lab and the Worker Institute co-sponsors of Cornell’s 2022, Union Day,” event brought Starbucks Workers to the Cornell ILR campus for a spell-binding Union Day event! Starbucks Workers shared WHY they want a Union, HOW they are getting a Union, and WHAT the employer is doing to try and stop them, including surveillance, threats, and even termination. The questioned posed is whether now is the Moment for a Movement? The resounding answer is Yes!

Featured Panelists were:

• Buffalo, Ithaca, and Tennessee Starbucks Employees
• Mark Gaston Pearce
  A&S ’75 Attorney, former Chairman of the NLRB
• Mike Dolce
  ILR ’11, Attorney for Workers United for Starbucks
• Cathy Creighton
  ILR ’87, Director, ILR Buffalo Co-Lab as moderator

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