Starbucks has avoided a hostile boardroom takeover — for now. After a four-month campaign to seat three ex-bureaucrat union activists on the coffee giant’s board of directors, the Strategic Organizing Center (SOC), a multi-industry union conglomerate with virtually no ownership stake in Starbucks corporation, withdrew its nominees ahead of Starbucks’ March shareholder vote. But the fact that this battle took place at all is telling. More and more, unions are waking up to the fact that they can’t raise their numbers by appealing to workers directly. Instead, they’re heading to bureaucrats and boardrooms to get their way.
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