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Former Starbucks boss Howard Schultz in Seattle in January 2019
FORMER Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz is set to return to the company for a third time, it was announced on Wednesday, amid reports of anti-union tactics by the coffee-chain giant.
Mr Schultz takes over the reins as the beleaguered firm seeks to improve its image, which has been damaged over claims of union busting and bullying of staff.
Starbucks told investors it aimed to “improve relations” with its workers and open 20,000 stores by the end of the decade.
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
