Calls for Starbucks boycott grow amid aggressive union-busting activities

Starbucks Workers United has scheduled a nationwide Day of Action on 14 September to urge ‘customers and allies to join the fight’ to get Starbucks to ‘respect workers’ fundamental right to organize and bargain a fair contract’. Photograph: Nicholas.T Ansell/PA

Calls for a consumer boycott of Starbucks are growing amid mounting criticism of the coffee chain’s aggressive union-busting activities.

A boycott, supporters say, would aim to use consumer power to pressure Starbucks to stop its union-busting and illegal actions and to finally negotiate its first union contract.