Coming Soon: The Truth About Starbucks

Brave New Films is about to expose Starbucks' mistreatment of workers with the same tenacity used to tackle corporate giant Wal-Mart.

Visit http://stopstarbucks.com/robert/

Get the facts about Starbucks' unfair labor practices, and sign the memo to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, insisting he let workers unionize.

Then, stay tuned as Brave New Films brings you more from its newest campaign: Stop Starbucks.

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• starbucks
• brave
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• greenwald
• employee
• free
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• unions
• labor
• workers
• employees
• howard
• schultz
• walmart

[mike92x]

I'll never give up Starbucks

[bravenewfilms]

We're not asking anyone to boycott Starbucks. What we want is for the company's employees to have the chance to unionize and have the opportunity to negotiate better benefits and hours.  As a fan of the company's products, don't you also want to help their workers?

[mozzmanau]

Starbucks are just like Macca's, Nike, Walmart and most american global companies who exploit workers, except us here in Aussie Land booted starbucks out of our country by not buying thier coffee. Cant remember how many stores closed but it was a vast majority, something like 80 - 90% of stores. Goodbye to starbucks in Oz :-) VERY happy with that

[MasterREB]

Starbucks, Wal-Mart and Burger King just to name a few need to stop treating their workers like sweat shop workers.

[JJ9715]

I am starting to see why unions could be a benefit to workers in the retail sector. I have watched most of the films about wal-mart and it's really sickening that these companies are making billions in profits, yet their workers are living in poverty. This is not the American way. I think that is the problem in this country, that the rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer. The wealth needs to be distributed more evenly.

[liamdevine1]

@asubabay Ya...lets support big corporate giants who wouldn't blink if your life was turned upside down tomorrow....your an idiot

[liamdevine1]

1 out of 25 Coffees are fair trade currently at Starbucks...seems to me there is more to worry about with the Starbucks 'mentality' than just unions. The psuedo intellectual morons who buy into the starbucks' consumer culture and so called 'lifestyle' are possibly the most ignorant people to ever walk this planet. Wake up and smell the coffee...Schultzy is in it for the money, and marketing your brain cells in order for you to buy into his 'green' faux philosophy.

[flagship21]

Hey you consumers vote with your dollars. And commercialism brain washes you guys. Support Small business.

[asubabay]

eff you i work at starbucks i love it and i support sbux all the way!

[ticks4ticks4]

@DerLiedmeister Thanks for the clarification!

[ticks4ticks4]

@alleybot Yes, ignorance on a LARGE-scale---a video needs to be made to examine all viewpoints!

[ticks4ticks4]

@bravenewfilms I agree, as a former "partner"(employee). How about "Coodinator III" (hint: Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For?). How about violation of the NLRA? Cutting hours on large scale--per quarter--so no benefits? Less than 20 hours per week? International opportunites-->really? Fair compensation, on a large scale, to internation coffee growers/"peasants"? Call-in-sick policy? Diversity?

[DevSodDribble]

Eh, working in a coal mine is dangerous deadly work that deserves high pay and protection for the workers. Slinging coffee at Starbucks or stocking shelves at WalMart? Not so much. Saying that these 'workers' (an INSULTING term for 'employees') should be paid more just for having a heartbeat and clocking in, because the CEO or owner is rich?? That sound like communism, and that has been proven not to work.

[alleybot]

This is pure ignorance.