Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is facing backlash from employees and on social media after he drew a comparison this weekend between Holocaust prisoners and the coffee company’s mission.
His comments to workers came ahead of a unionization vote by some workers in Buffalo, New York., Schultz, who is Jewish, can be seen speaking passionately to employees Saturday. He refers to a story about Holocaust prisoners at concentration camps in Poland who had to share their limited resources.
“Not everyone, but most people, shared their blanket with five other people,” Schultz says, adding that he was inspired to share his own “blanket” with five other people. “So much of that story is threaded into what we’ve tried to do at Starbucks — is share our blanket.”Schultz, who is chairman emeritus of Starbucks, has, saying it’s a tale about humanity.
Starbucks closed some of its stores in the Buffalo area so workers could attend Schultz’s talk. While Schultz, the company’s largest individual shareholder, never directly addressed the issue of unionization, he made several appeals to workers to realize that Starbucks isn’t “a perfect company” that will make but insisted that the company will try to fix them and learn from them.the unionization push.
In fighting unionization, Schultz and Starbucks have said they are listening to employees and are striving to improve conditions. Last month, after the workers petitioned for the right to unionize, the company announced a new pay plan that included raises.Workers seeking to unionize complain of insufficient training, staffing and pay increases. Starbucks didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The National Labor Relations Board is set to send ballots to workers at the three Buffalo locations Wednesday. Workers will have until Dec. 8 to vote on whether to align themselves with the Workers United Labor Union. None of the corporate-owned Starbucks locations in the U.S. are unionized; the vote would apply only to the three locations in Buffalo.in the U.S.
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