Starbucks Stops Opposing Its Baristas’ Union

3 years ago by dantheclamman to c/politics

In a historic breakthrough, Starbucks and its workers announce they’ve come together.
Shyfer 57 points 3 years ago

Does anyone know if there's a way to identify nearby unionized stores? I'd like to only go to my unionized Starbucks or unionized Trader Joe's, if there's any of those close to me.

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Ersatz86 34 points 3 years ago path: 0 7968055 7969184, hotness: undefined, score: 34, children: 9
WhyYesZoidberg 25 points 3 years ago

Jesus christ, first time visiting that horrible site I’m greeted with a purple, full page, text box to submit my email address to “never miss a new video”.. what the fuck? Who in their right mind sits down and says “yes, this is just what we need”

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Ersatz86 28 points 3 years ago

Holy shitsnacks! You are unfortunately correct. I was not bludgeoned by the purple sledgehammer the first visit.

Here, try this alternative, now with less retina syphilis (they still ask for email tho) :

https://qz.com/...

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june 9 points 3 years ago

Oh shit, my regular store is unionized, that’s fuckin fantastic.

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TruthAintEasy 6 points 3 years ago

I know google-fu

Show me

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deadbeef79000 5 points 3 years ago

Do you think those are search results you're reading?

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CosmicTurtle 6 points 3 years ago

Free. Your. Browser.

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Ersatz86 2 points 3 years ago

Insert morpheusbeckoning.gif

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Ersatz86 1 point 3 years ago
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DAMunzy 52 points 3 years ago

I'm sorry but are we eating the onion with this website?

To demonstrate its good faith to understandably skeptical workers, the company also agreed to let them receive credit card tipping

Have the baristas not been getting credit card tips?!?!

Just looked it up. Starbucks I guess recently added the tipping option to stores but didn't enable that at union stores.

Holy fuck. So Evil.

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TruthAintEasy 46 points 3 years ago

Good. Every hourly job should be unionized

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cedarmesa -15 points 3 years ago
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Transporter_Room_3 72 points 3 years ago

"why just BLACK lives?"

Nobody said other positions SHOULDN'T be, just that EVERY hourly position SHOULD be. And I agree. Salaries positions should also be, but hourly employees are usually on the lowest rungs of the ladder.

But management and c-suites don't need unions. They already have the power hourly just doesn't have.

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Snapz -19 points 3 years ago

You're overlooking the hundreds of thousands of everyday salaried workers being laid off in the last couple years by drawing a line that doesn't exist between them and vague "hourly" workers you describe here - I have a good friend in an hourly position that makes $60/ hr with good benefits, and one that makes around $40/hr with crap benefits from his salaried position, both were laid off for no reason last year in one of these rounds of indiscriminate, unjustified firings solely to juice stock dividends.

No reason to not full court press on this issue FROM ALL WORKERS- labor needs to be unionized, PERIOD - McDonalds or Microsoft, all of it. Nobody is even talking about the relatively non-existent number of people in the c suite here? HUGE ocean between them and the salaried workers at their companies.

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FabledAepitaph -58 points 3 years ago

Good job with the solidarity there, bud. The best way to rouse support is to be confrontational toward anyone who is trying to join in, lmao. Why should this guy care about your movement if you don't care about his?

I don't care what the second part of your message says, because I don't care to read past the dumb capital words you put in for drama.

Edit: I'm just the messenger, lmao! You guys are neutering your own social movement with your lame attitudes. I'm just telling you about it.

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null 29 points 3 years ago

You have a lot of opinions about things you refuse to even read. Why should anyone take yours seriously?

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HikingVet 23 points 3 years ago

Fuck your tone policing.

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gregorum 35 points 3 years ago

Sus

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Sanctus 11 points 3 years ago

Think they might win their lawsuit to make all of us slaves?

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dantheclamman 5 points 3 years ago

Agreed. But it's likely because Howard Shultz finally handed over the reins. He is such an anti-union ideologue that he was willing to risk the health of his own company rather than make a deal

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Toast 5 points 3 years ago

amogus

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skozzii 22 points 3 years ago

I've stopped going to Starbucks since the union busting began. None of my locations are unionized.

I will return once they are.

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CobblerScholar 6 points 3 years ago

I'm not sure I would go back even if they are unionized. It's shitty coffee made by a chain that is very eager to ignore labor laws that are inconvenient. I'll stick with my local coffee shops that actually give a shit

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figjam 4 points 3 years ago

I stopped going to them because their coffee is gross. Additionally the line in the morning clogs the street i take to get to work.

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