Following a post in which the Starbucks Workers Union expressed support for Palestine, Senator Rick Scott and several others have called for a boycott of the successful coffee chain. Such a boycott is a short-sighted attempt to score political points at the expense of hundreds of thousands of workers who had nothing to do with the post by the Starbucks Union.
There are three important facts to understand about this issue. First, the Starbucks Workers Union, does not represent the Starbucks Corporation. In fact, Starbucks immediately denounced the union’s pro-Palestinian post. Second, most Starbucks stores are not unionized and have no connection whatsoever to the Starbucks Union that made the post. Of the approximately 16,000 Starbucks stores, only 340 are unionized. The union has 9,000 members out of more than 400,000 Starbucks employees. That’s about 2% of the total. So not only does the union not represent Starbucks, it does not even represent the views of the majority of the Starbucks employees. Finally, the Starbucks Workers Union is a subordinate member of the much larger Service Employees Union International (SEUI), which is comprised of more than 2 million members. The SEUI has also denounced the Starbucks Workers Union post.
Punishing Starbucks and hundreds of thousands of their employees for the actions of a small fraction of their employees is not only wrong but runs counter to conservative values. Starbucks is an American company that has grown to provide jobs for over 400,000 mostly unskilled workers. Many of these workers would be on the unemployment rolls were it not for the opportunity that Starbucks has given them. Starbucks has no say in whether employees form a union. Federal law prevents them from taking action against employees who do so. Blaming the corporation for the actions of a few employees is just wrong.
The worst part about Scott’s call for a boycott of Starbucks is that it is a move straight from the liberal cancel culture playbook. It is hypocritical to rail against cancel culture by the left and then use that same tactic when it suit you.
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If there’s a Wawa in your area, their coffee is better than Starbucks anyway!
There’s a viral vidiot on Twitter, in which an almost “25-year-old chick” whines that she can’t get a $150-to-$200 K job with her degree in marketing, while she’s drinking a $5.00+ cup of coffee with a Starbucks logo on it. My cup of coffee in the morning costs less than $1.00, just popping a K-Cup into my Keurig!