Last October, when the issue of a labor-related boycott on Starbucks came up at UCLA, we did a quick search and found one location in the med center area.* The issue has arisen again and a more diligent search also finds a location at Anderson.**
From the LA Daily News: Students at UCLA and UC Riverside are demanding their schools cut ties with Starbucks until the coffee chain ends an alleged union-busting campaign against its baristas. In a show of solidarity, the students plan to deliver petitions with more than 1,500 signatures to the two universities this week. “The issues of Starbucks workers and the experiences that students face are intersectional, and we must be in solidarity,” said David Ramirez, a UCLA student, former Starbucks worker and member of UCLA Students Against Starbucks.
Starbucks spokesman Andrew Trull addressed union concerns in a statement released Monday, Jan. 29. “As a company, we respect our partners’ right to organize, freely associate, engage in lawful union activities and bargain collectively without fear of reprisal or retaliation — and remain committed to our stated aim of reaching ratified contracts for union-represented stores in 2024,” he said.
The move to organize has grown rapidly in recent years with workers at more than 385 Starbucks stores unionizing with Starbucks Workers United as they lobby for higher wages, increased staffing and consistent scheduling, despite heavy pushback from the coffee chain...
The UCLA petition... to the board of directors for Associated Students UCLA, demands that the school divest from Starbucks and terminate its licensing agreement with the company.
The UC Riverside petition... to Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox and top decision-makers at the university, will likewise demand that the university not renew its contract with the coffee chain...
Full story at https://www.dailynews.com/2024/01/29/ucla-uc-riverside-students-petition-to-remove-starbucks-from-campuses/.
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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2023/10/will-starbucks-labor-controversy-come.html.
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