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Starbucks Workers United says a week-long unfair labor practice Strike With Pride begins Friday, with more than 3,000 workers at over 150 stores nationwide participating.
Howard Schultz, (born July 19, 1953, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American businessman who served as CEO (1987–2000, 2008–17, 2022– ) of Starbucks, a coffeehouse chain that he helped transform into a worldwide presence. Schultz was a communications graduate (B.S., 1975) of Northern Michigan University. He joined the Seattle-based Starbucks in 1982 as director of retail operations and marketing and became chairman in 1985. Inspired by a 1983 trip to Italy, where he discovered that Milan alone boasted 1,500 coffeehouses, Schultz envisioned turning a tiny regional operation into a national c...