Howard Schultz’s fight to stop a Starbucks barista uprising
Starbucks’s CEO saw his unionizing baristas as a threat to his life’s work. They said he didn’t understand how the country & their lives had changed.
SEATTLE — Howard Schultz, the billionaire founder of Starbucks, stood alone beside the auditorium stage at the company’s global headquarters. The room was packed with 200 of his top executives, all waiting for him to speak. But first Schultz wanted them to hear from their employees across the …
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