Resolution of Solidarity

Solidarity with the Hopewell, NJ, Starbucks Workers

Raritan Valley Community College Faculty Federation AFT Local #2375 resolution of solidarity with and support for the Starbucks Workers United Organizing Committee of the Hopewell NJ Starbucks, Store 7853

WHEREAS, Workers at the Hopewell NJ Starbucks, Store 7853, have organized to form a union in an effort to establish true partnership and accountability in their workplace;

WHEREAS, Starbucks stores across the United States have launched unionization efforts with two Buffalo, NY Starbucks stores successfully unionizing;

WHEREAS, Starbucks has engaged in anti-union activities to discourage unionization;

WHEREAS, Starbuck’s anti-union actions are unacceptable and a violation of workers basic civil rights;

WHEREAS, New Jersey is a proud union state with a strong tradition of working-class organization;

WHEREAS, The future of the working-class movement depends on building up strength in all sectors and workplaces;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT

RESOLVED, That, on behalf of the full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, librarians, and counselors of Raritan Valley Community College, RVCC AFT does hereby express its solidarity with the Starbucks Workers United Organizing Committee of the Hopewell NJ Starbucks, Store 7853; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That RVCC AFT calls on Starbucks to respect the will of its workers in the Hopewell NJ Starbucks, Store 7853, cease any and all anti-union activity at that location and at all Starbucks stores, and sign the Fair Election Principles as outlined by the Starbucks Workers Organizing Committee; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That RVCC AFT calls on all elected and appointed officials in the State of New Jersey to stand with the workers of this and any other Starbucks store who are taking steps to organize their workplaces; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That RVCC AFT will stand with the Starbucks workers of Hopewell should they need further support as they build their union and the larger movement.

February 15, 2022