Partners Screening: How Starbucks Baristas Started a Labor Revolution

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Free screening and discussion to explore a historic union fight and what it teaches us about organizing for workers’ rights Join local Utah labor organizers at the Teamsters 222 hall for the first Utah showing of Partners: How Starbucks baristas started a labor revolution! Afterwards, local Starbucks Workers United organizers will discuss their experience organizing Utah stores. Admission is free, and snacks will be provided! There will also be a raffle of SBWU merch! In 2020, a group of “Inside Organizers” in Buffalo, New York get jobs at Starbucks with the intention of starting a union. Baristas across Buffalo quickly join the cause. Starbucks catches on and immediately storms the market with over 100 specially-trained corporate executives and managers from across the country. An elaborate anti-union campaign ensues, which the federal government later finds to be the most illegal attack on organizing workers rights in modern United States history. Drawing from on-the-ground footage captured by workers and organizers, Partners takes us to the front lines of the labor campaign that inspired over 11,000 Starbucks workers across the country to organize.