Rossann Williams, Starbucks’ North America president who’s been a prominent figure in the company’s push against worker unionization, is leaving the company after 17 years.
Sara Trilling, meanwhile, was promoted to executive vice president and president of Starbucks North America. Trilling is a 20-year veteran of Starbucks and most recently served as senior vice president and president of Starbucks Asia Pacific in Hong Kong. Williams told employees in a letter last year Starbucks never favored unionization and prefers to speak directly to employees, but respects the legal process and wants to work with those in Buffalo who voted in favor of union representation.
Not surprised to hear of this Cdn. Starbucks V.P. to leave the Seatle based company, that showed little sympathy either to its dedicated,non-union youthful/workers or its loyal clientelle in N.American market, without a notice, in reestablishing their markets in Asia, Russia & EU