Both Amazon and Starbucks have cultivated reputations as progressive employers and pushed back against unionsIn October, Amazon
for its front-line workers to $19 from $18 and announced a program to train workers to take jobs within Amazon Web Services.to part-time employees and ensured that it included domestic partnerships. Other industry-leading benefits have come in its wake, such as college-tuition coverage, 401k plans, and parental leave. Many of these benefits are rare for workers at retailers or restaurants. Schultz, who stepped in as interim CEO earlier this year.
he would not embrace union efforts at a company where he is known as the architect of creating progressive employee benefits. "What's happening in America is much bigger than Starbucks," Schultz told The New York Times in June."Starbucks, unfortunately, happens to be the proxy of what is happening. We're right in the middle of it. If a company is as progressive as Starbucks, that's done so much and at the 100th percentile, can be threatened by a third party, then anyone can.
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