In November 2025, Seattle mayor Katie Wilson publicly called for the boycott of Starbucks. According to reports, Wilson joined the striking Starbucks employees and urged people to avoid buying coffee from the popular brand.
“That is why I am proud to join them on their picket line and proud to say loud and clear, I am not buying Starbucks, and you should not either,” she said at the time.
These remarks surfaced at the time when several Starbucks workers went on strike while demanding better pay. Despite her vocal stance against Starbucks a few months back, she has recently looked back at her remarks and shared a slightly different point of view. In a conversation with the New York Times, Wilson said that she believed that her comments have caused “more harm than good.”…