Starbucks Workers United is out with a major announcement today—they've managed to get Starbucks to agree to "discussions on a foundational framework to achieve collective bargaining agreements for represented stores and partners". This is a significant development because Starbucks has, to this point, been categorically oppositional to collective bargaining. They have viciously union-busted stores and SBWU and been held in violation of the law for doing so. While it's only a first step (and even SBWU admits this), it's the first sign that Starbucks may be losing its ability to hold out against the SBWU movement.
SBWU's full quote is transcribed below the cut: