Documentary premiere of Partners: How Starbucks Baristas Started a Labor Revolution
Partners: How Starbucks Workers Started a Labor Revolution
Free Premiere Screening and Q&A with Food and Drinks
Wednesday, November 5, 6:00 p.m.
Film Row Cinema, 1104 S Wabash Ave, 8th Floor

Join the Independent Labor Club (ILC), Chicago Workers Solidarity Network (CWSN), Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) and Working Films at Film Row Cinema (1104 S Wabash Ave, 8th floor) for a free premiere screening of Partners: How Starbucks Workers Started a Labor Revolution on Wednesday, November 5 at 6 p.m.

Following the film, there will be a Q&A with the director, Chris Sessions, and Casey Moore, one of Starbucks Workers United’s original organizers.

Free food and drink will be served.

Event Details:

Offering a behind-the-scenes look at the nitty-gritty of labor organizing, and featuring leaked footage of Starbucks’ shocking union-busting activities, Partners is a 40-minute documentary that tells the inside story of how a handful of determined worker activists launched a union drive in Buffalo, New York that would grow into one of the most important labor organizing campaigns of the 21st century — one that is on the cusp of setting a new standard of wages and protections for service workers.

In 2020, a group of “Inside Organizers” in Buffalo, New York get jobs at Starbucks with the intention of starting a union. Baristas across Buffalo quickly join the cause. Starbucks catches on and immediately storms the market with over 100 specially-trained corporate executives and managers from across the country. An elaborate anti-union campaign ensues, which the federal government later finds to be the most illegal attack on organizing workers rights in modern United States history. Drawing from on-the-ground footage captured by workers and organizers, Partners takes us to the front lines of the labor campaign that inspired over 11,000 Starbucks workers across the country to organize.

The screening will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with Chris Sessions and Casey Moore.

Chris Sessions is a filmmaker, journalist and organizer based in Portland, Oregon. He is the director of the documentary Partners: How Starbucks Baristas Started a Labor Revolution.

Casey Moore is one of the first Starbucks “salts” and co-founder of the Inside Organizer School (IOS). She is based in Upstate New York.

This screening is co-hosted by the Independent Labor Club (ILC), Chicago Workers Solidarity Network, Working Films and Starbucks Workers United (SBWU), with support from LaborLab.

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