Yves right here. There’s loads competitors for the title of “Nastiest CEO”. And simply by weight of numbers, Amazon has a powerful declare. Starbucks has solely 400,000 workers whereas Amazon has simply over 1.5 million, and one would suppose not less than half work in its warehouses. As dangerous as working for Starbucks might be, it doesn’t appear to outcome anyplace close to as usually to bodily exhaustion and joint harm.

However present Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has been low profile. Jeff Bezos nonetheless stays a billionaire to scorn though he’s not within the saddle at Amazon. So Howard Schultz as founder and nonetheless head honcho of Starbucks is arguably a major goal. However has the well-deserved criticism of Starbucks’ union busting reached the mainstream? And on prime of that, prospects who’ve antipathy for Starbucks the corporate or Starbucks the espresso might discover themselves bereft of alternate options, say in an airport. Reader sanity checks appreciated.

By Sonali Kolhatkar, an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the founder, host, and government producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a weekly tv and radio present that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica stations. Her forthcoming e-book is Rising Up: The Energy of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (Metropolis Lights Books, 2023). She is a writing fellow for the Financial system for All undertaking on the Unbiased Media Institute and the racial justice and civil liberties editor at Sure! Journal. She serves because the co-director of the nonprofit solidarity group the Afghan Girls’s Mission and is a co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan. She additionally sits on the board of administrators of Justice Motion Middle, an immigrant rights group. Produced by Financial system for All<, a undertaking of the Unbiased Media Institute