UCLA Students Petition to Have Starbucks Removed From Campus

UCLA students are showing support for Starbucks baristas by petitioning to have Starbucks removed from campus after the franchise has been involved in illegal union-busting.

Many Starbucks workers have unionized, wanting to better their pay and working conditions, which Starbucks has interfered with illegally.

If UCLA students win their petition, they will have the school end its licensing agreement with Starbucks. UCLA has one Starbucks location, at Anderson Café at the Anderson School of Management.

Though this is the only campus Starbucks, there are three different Starbucks in Westwood -- including one inside the Westwood Target -- that many UCLA students go to.

UCLA student David Ramirez, a former Starbucks employee and member of UCLA Students Against Starbucks spoke on the importance of the movement, saying, “The issues of Starbucks workers and the experiences that students face are intersectional, and we must be in solidarity."

via Kevin Smith of the Los Angeles Daily News.

UCLA is far from the only school with students trying to rid of their school's deal with Starbucks and campus locations. UC Riverside is petitioning alongside UCLA, and Cornell University already won their petition and had their Starbucks campus locations closed in 2023.

The petition will be brought to the board of directors of the Associated Students of UCLA on Tuesday.