Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says he's not anti-union, but his past tells a different story

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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says he's not anti-union, but his past tells a different story
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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has a long history of opposing unions, dating back to his earliest days at the company.

Howard Schultz returned to the helm of Starbucks this week amid a union push from the company's baristas.But in his time away from the coffee giant, attitudes around unions have changed.A pro-union poster is seen on a lamp pole outside Starbucks' Broadway and Denny location in Seattle's Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood on March 22, 2022.

"I think they're likely to double down on their anti-union efforts and do everything they possibly can," said John Logan, a labor professor at San Francisco State University. To date, more than 180 company-owned locations have filed petitions for a union election, although that is still a small fraction of Starbucks' overall U.S. footprint of nearly 9,000 stores. Out of the locations whose votes have been counted, only one cafe has opposed unionizing.Former chairman and CEO of Starbucks, and United States 2020 presidential candidate Howard Schultz visits Fox & Friends at Fox News Channel Studios on April 2, 2019 in New York City.

Schultz left Starbucks soon after to found his own espresso chain, Il Giornale, and its early success led him to acquire Starbucks and merge the two companies. In "Pour Your Heart Into It," Schultz said that a barista "on his own" successfully worked to decertify the union for Starbucks retail workers.

tied to Schultz's political hopes, Dave Schmitz, the organizing director for the local United Food and Commercial Workers Union in the 1980s, said that Starbucks filed the decertification petition.On top of that, Schultz often painted the coffee chain's benefits, like health coverage for part-time workers, as his own idea as part of a broader belief that treating employees well will benefit the company as a whole.

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