Union organizers target Amazon and Starbucks execs in Labor Day rally

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Starbucks and Amazon union organizers from across New York state and other parts of the country were joined by supporters as they rallied outside of Howard Schultz and Jeff Bezos' Manhattan homes.

Starbucks employee Megan DiMotta speaks outside interim CEO Howard Schultz’s residence in Greenwich Village. Employees at the store she works at in Bath Beach, Brooklyn recently voted to unionize. She is flanked by Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls and other current and former Starbucks workers.Starbucks employee Megan DiMotta speaks outside interim CEO Howard Schultz’s residence in Greenwich Village. Employees at the store she works at in Bath Beach, Brooklyn recently voted to unionize.

“The way we’re organizing is real grassroots, nontraditional, new school, new generation of organizing, and that’s what it’s going to take to get these companies to bend a knee and come to the table,” Chris Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union, told the crowd gathered in front of Schultz’s building.

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