Starbucks Workers United leadership promised to announce a National Assembly by July 13th, but they have not done so. We need a National Strategy Assembly because our movement needs a clear strategy to organize more stores, reinstate fired workers, and win a strong contract for all Starbucks workers. Starbucks has and will fight workers at every step of the way. We must openly discuss and debate our strategy to fight back!
A National Strategy Assembly agenda must cover:
- Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of our movement up to this point and the challenges that organizing workers face
- Democratize the leadership — elections and transparency for all major bodies from the individual store to the national union, including National Bargaining Committee and National Contract Action Team
- Discuss and debate the important questions of tactics and strategy in the union including having clear publicized demands, how to fight retaliation and firings, and win a contract
- Workers' proposals on strategy and a vote on all strategy ideas
- Rally workers around a strong national plan of action for the Fall led by workers!
We, unionized Starbucks workers fighting in this movement, call on our leadership to convene a National Strategy Assembly for all organizing Starbucks workers by August 21st, announced by July 30th. If this is not done, we commit to building for and launching a National Strategy Assembly ourselves.
If you are a Starbucks worker who agrees we need a national strategy assembly, sign below and send this to five coworkers and post it in Discords/Slacks/group chats!
Signatories:
Alydia Claypool, Overland Park, KS
Bill Whitmire, Phoenix, AZ
Hannah Whitbeck, Ann Harbor, MI
Jacob Lawson, Cottonwood Heights, Utah
Josh Crowell, Kansas City, MO
Katie McCoy, Marysville, WA
KD, Pittsburgh, PA
LB, Pittsburgh, PA
Liam Easton-Calabria, Boston MA
Michaela Sellaro, Denver CO
