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Tuesday Jun 2, 2009 3:19 pm

A Bitter Brew at Starbucks

By Adam Case
Maybe it's the Great Recession, or perhaps the National Labor Relations Board, but Starbucks is taking a lot of heat. The World’s largest coffee retailer is now the subject of a viral campaign: The Stop Starbucks website posted this video chronicling the company's union-busting activities:



Apparently, being rated one of the best places to work by Fortune magazine has convinced Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz that his employees really don’t need a union. Now if he could only force his workers and the incorrigible Starbucks Workers Union to see eye-to-eye. Anti-EFCA lobbyists and firings might help. But Howie, did we really need to suggest those tactics?

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