
ALT Green background with text about Black History Month and how daily recognition is always important. The top of the image features the Starbucks Workers United Pocket logo and the Starbucks Workers United logo on the bottom

ALT Photos including Velma Hopkins and her biography as an organizer of Local 22 (FTA) a racially integrated local. This local was formed after a workers death on the job and subsequent walk out of over 10K people. Sadly due to heavy anti-union efforts and the Red Scare, Local 22 was decertified in 1950. However Velma never stopped organizing and became a part of the Civil Rights Movement , where she pushed for desegregation. Her fight for fair treatment is constant.

ALT “Working people have so few tools to protect and defend themselves when their employers break the law. That makes today’s ruling by the Supreme Court particularly egregious. It underscores how the economy is rigged against working people all the way up to the Supreme Court. “Starbucks should have dropped this case the day it committed to chart a new path forward with its workers, instead of aligning itself with other giant corporations intent on stifling worker organizing. It’s incongruous to want to build a productive, positive relationship with workers and at the same time lead an attack on one of the few mechanisms they have to defend themselves against unscrupulous employers. “Regardless of large corporations’ machinations at the Supreme Court, workers are continuing to organize. Just last week, workers at 20 Starbucks stores filed petitions to join Starbucks Workers United. And there are nearly 450 union Starbucks stores across the country. Workers’ momentum is unstoppable and

































