There are 9,000 Starbucks stores nationwide, and at least 290 of them have voted to unionize since 2021. A store in Santa Cruz and in San Francisco have already unionized and now in Sunnyvale, workers say they want to join the fight for a living wage and benefits.
"Since we've filed, I've been getting the hours that I requested, however before that, I was getting way below what I needed to qualify for certain benefits that I needed. I was getting between 12 and 16 hours when I needed 20," said Nathan Hanner, a Starbucks employee in Sunnyvale.
Rep. Khanna met with employees who say they want to unionize at the Sunnyvale Starbucks on Bernardo Avenue Thursday afternoon. "They’re asking for no retaliation and that should not be fired. They should not have their hours cut; they should not have their benefits cut; they should not have their schedules changed. They should not have short staff just because they want to vote to decide to be in a union," Khanna said. Founder and former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testified before Congress last week
after a federal labor judge found the company violated U.S. labor laws hundreds of times when its first store campaigned to unionize in Buffalo, NY. Congressman Ro Khanna "Starbucks advertises that they offer full-time benefits for workers working over 20 hours per week…a lot lower than other employers. But what they don’t say is that a lot of our workers aren’t getting scheduled enough hours to qualify for these benefits such as free tuition through ASU Online,
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