The Starbucks chief executive said protesters vandalizing its stores over the Israel-Hamas war have the wrong impression of the company and its beliefs. The letter seeks to remove the company from the controversy caused in part by comments seen as pro-Palestinian by the workers’ union. After the war broke out in early October, Starbucks Workers United and local affiliates of the union organizing some of the chain’s U.S. stores expressed support for Palestinians in social-media posts online. Starbucks Workers United countersued, saying the company had defamed the union in its response. Starbucks Workers United represented around 370 of Starbucks’s 9,650 stores as of earlier this month.

Source: Wall Street Journal December 20, 2023 08:03 UTC