Starbucks Prepares to Expand Worker Benefits That Might Exclude Unionized Staff

Starbucks Chief Govt Howard Schultz is ramping up the corporate’s marketing campaign in opposition to a unionization push in its U.S. shops, saying new advantages being developed for chain workers legally can’t be prolonged to unionized areas.

In a web-based discussion board with U.S. retailer leaders this week, Mr. Schultz mentioned he’s reviewing the corporate’s advantages to develop an expanded employee-benefit bundle in an effort to raised recruit and retain baristas. Mr. Schultz suspended billions of {dollars} in share buybacks on his first day returning as Starbucks’s interim CEO final week, a transfer he mentioned would assist the corporate make investments extra money into employees and shops.