Starbucks has fired a longtime union organiser in Buffalo just two days after former CEO Howard Schultz appeared before a Senate committee to deny that the corporation is engaging in illegal union-busting activity.
Lexi Rizzo, who worked for seven years as a shift supervisor at one of the first Starbucks stores to successfully unionise, was one of three union organisers fired in another apparent crackdown on labour activity at the coffee giant. Ms Rizzo has served on the union’s organising committee since its outset in August 2021.
