Employment and Jobs

This VC believes in Unions. Can he convince the rest of corporate America to join him?

August 31, 2023  • Issie Lapowsky

Roundtable chair Roy Bahat is trying to build a bridge between worker movements and the corporate leaders whose first instinct is to squash them. Read the full profile by Issie Lapowsky for Fast Company…

Article / 8.31.2023

In the fall of 2021, Jaz Brisack was working as a Starbucks barista in Buffalo, New York, when an email from a total stranger named Roy Bahat popped into Brisack’s inbox. At the time, Brisack was embroiled in a historic, ugly fight to form what would ultimately become the first union in all of Starbucks’ roughly 10,000 company-owned North Americanlocations. Bahat thought he might be able to help.

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