Starbucks Is Banning Pride Decorations, Workers Union Alleges (unconfirmed)

[Phil01]

I'll wait for confirmation before getting angry.

Starbucks Is Banning Pride Decorations, Workers Union Alleges
https://newrepublic.com/post/173589/starbucks-take-down-pride-decorations-disgusting-cave-far-right

A New York City Starbucks coffee shop displaying Pride colors in 2020
Starbucks has banned Pride decorations in its stores halfway through Pride Month, the company’s workers union claimed Tuesday, in a stunning cave to far-right anti-LGBTQ fury.

There has been a wave of ultra-conservative pushback against companies that express support for equal rights. It started when Bud Light did a campaign with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in March, but things really kicked off when Target displayed its Pride swimwear collection. Target said it would pull back its Pride merchandise in response to the outcry. Starbucks is the latest to fall.

“For the last two weeks, Starbucks workers have taken to social media to report that the company is no longer allowing Pride decorations in-store,” the Starbucks workers’ union tweeted.

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Starbucks in NYC caving to the RW seems implausible, but the story is a data point.

We'll see.

[emulatorloo]

1. Does seem implausible. A number of replies say that they are tweeing from a Starbucks w Pride

decorations. Another posted something from Starbuck’s official LinkedIn profile from 4 days ago celebrating Pride Month and promoting Brave Trails.

Link to tweet

This is taken directly from the LinkedIn corporate page and was posted 4 days ago. While I don’t deny what you’re saying is true. When was this policy put into place, who authorized the policy change, and how was the change pushed out to stores?

As you say, we’ll see.

If true it seems crazy to me that Starbucks would do this.

[yankee87]

2. Same in Cleveland area

Have family working there and she was told to take off her Pride accessories. We called corporate on this and was told, "We'll look into it and it was wrong decision".

We'll see what happens.

[Phil01]

3. So local situations here and there?

A good thing the union is on top of it.

[emulatorloo]

4. ++++

That was a positive message from corporate, hope they follow thru.