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Starbucks broke a workplace plan to give baristas time to vote for votes.
The coffee giant said Thursday it would ensure its 200,000 U.S. employees have the opportunity to vote on election day this year and plan ahead to do volunteer work at polling stations.
Starbucks implements new tools to ensure workers and customers can register to vote. (Noam Galai / Getty Images)
The company has created a portal for employees to register to vote, request a mail-in vote and help volunteers make this year’s election accessible and safe at COVID-19. It also teaches customers how to do this through the Starbucks app.
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“As citizens in a democracy, we have the right, and the responsibility, to vote,” Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson said in a letter to baristas Thursday.
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“This is not politics … it causes thousands of individual voices of Green Apron to be heard.”
Starbucks is the latest company to promote workplace policies to boost voter turnout. Walmart said it would give its 1.5 million employees a maximum of three paid hours to cast their vote. Apple will also give employees four hours off and companies such as Uber, Lyft and Best Buy have joined the nonpartisan campaign “Time to vote” led by the business community which is pushing to give workers enough time to vote . The campaign has more than 600 companies on board.
| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SBUX | STARBUCKS Corporation | 83.41 | +1.00 | + 1.21% |
Starbucks has actively encouraged its customers and employees over the years. The chain partnered with TurboVote in 2016 to create a tool that allows baristas to register to vote.
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