In an ideal world, he would recognize the prevailing sentiment and take his seat among the numerous collective bargaining tables being set at his coffeehouses. But Schultz, who on April 4 embarked on a third stint as head of the Seattle-based monolith, views the unionizing effort as a “disruption,” and said during a recent session with employees (whom he calls “partners”) he was not “anti-union,” but rather “pro-Starbucks, pro-partner, pro-Starbucks culture.”
The company, he implied, didn’t become worth upward of $52 billion or make a profit of $4.2 billion last year by collectively bargaining.
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