, may share a distaste for unions, but they’ve responded differently to organizing efforts. On Staten Island, Amazon brought in “union-avoidance” consultants to roam the warehouse floor and meet with workers before the union election. At Starbucks, by contrast, such efforts have been handled in-house—by managers who hire, discipline, and schedule baristas, but who also work alongside them.
The Starbucks on East Olive Way was a popular gathering place in Seattle’s Capitol Hill, until it recently closed.Other managers, though, resent being pitted against their employees. One manager in the Pacific Northwest, who asked that I not use their name for fear of retaliation, told me that they were disciplined by a supervisor for being insufficiently hostile to the union.
Then, on July 11th, Pringle, the manager who had been sent to Buffalo, directed Voytas’s new store and another unionized location in his district to lock up early and assemble for a meeting by Zoom. Pringle informed the workers, only some of whom received notice in time to attend, that their stores would be permanently closed on August 1st. He said that the two stores had logged too many “incidents” , and were thus too dangerous to stay open.
Thirty-two unionized Starbucks locations in Washington and Oregon have asked the company to begin negotiating a contract, but no sessions have yet been held. How to force Starbucks to the table is potentially an existential question for Workers United. It’s unclear what tactic, other than focussed large-scale strikes, could pressure the company into meaningful talks.
Coffee-maker (Barrista)
He thinks he’s god. He’s about to find out otherwise.
If the employees feel they are better off with a union then good for them. I think it would be wrong to make them dependent on tips to make ends meet.
Unite and be pride.
Everybody join!
It’s so offensive that these ceo make billions and have no interest in paying anything more than they have to.
Ever notice how Costco employees don’t need a Union? If these other corporations treated their workers well they wouldn’t need to unionize. So they know what to do if they really don’t want to accept a union, no?
In Italy being a barista is a respectable career that pays a very liveable wage. Even without tips! Corporate overlords are a scourge. And their coffee SUCKS!
All over crappy burned cawfee.
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etammykim lol he needed a cup of coffee from starbucks before this show moccasins coming soon