17 And Homeless, Starbucks Worker Fired For Unionizing Seeks Justice
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- Days before high school graduation, Starbucks fired Katie for union organizing. She was 17, working as a barista, and living in her car. Her plans for a new apartment and college were put on hold. Now, Starbucks may have to pay her tens of thousands of dollars.
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She says she doesn't understand why the elders can't see the extortion. Because their paycheck requires them not to see it.
Their greed overcomes basic humanity.
Recouping the cost of unlawful termination isn't enough. They need to be fined a hefty additional sum of this or there is no reason not to unlawfully terminate and try to get away with it if it comes out net neutral even when they're found to be in the wrong.
Obviously
It's a private company, you have no case 😂
May all these Starbucks workers get justice, and may Starbucks managers and executives be humiliated at having to pay.
They will not pay much. It will be just a slap on the wrist.
As a small business owner, *I* *LOVE* *UNIONS!*
I Love Unions because I need what EVERY small business owner needs... I need Customers; aka Consumers with Money. Union Workers organize and demand proper wages = Money. Union Workers have Money and therefore, can become my valuable Customers. Non-union Workers are too timid and/or ignorant to organize and are therefore, weaker and poorer. They choose to be poor slave and they are NOT going to become My (or Your) customers, they are a drag upon our entire economy.
I LOVE UNIONS BECAUSE UNIONS CREATE MIDDLE CLASS!
... and because I want Our country to have a Big and Strong Middle Class, thanks to Unions.
These people should be very proud of themselves. I hope they win their cases!
Yeah $10 coffees well be great
@@Handle-this-15 Make your own coffee at home if you aren't willing to pay retail price.
Girl, I dont think they dont know. They just dont care. The company solely cares about profit.
She’s asking all the right questions, she’ll make an excellent attorney one day!
They care about stopping unionization more than they care about profit. They are willing to loose big piles of money for as long as it takes to stop unions.
@@rickb3650 unions empower workers to obtain basic rights and fair wages. That brings up the cost for those companies. Thats why they are wiling to spend so much to burst them, but its still less than those costs. But the peoples dignity, who cares?
@@mazocco minimum wage is minimum wage my dude. It's a coffee shop not a career.
@@Handle-this-15 Eat s**t, bootlicker. Some people need to live off that coffee shop job. You realize not everyone can be a doctor or an engineer right? And it can't ALL be transient teens doing retail jobs. EVERY JOB should pay you enough to live.
These people will make this country worth living in again. It’s horrible that corporate freaks will harm them during this process
These people want to fight to continue working at this woke corporations . FLMAO 😂
@@robertsteck6875fighting for workers rights is commendable. So laugh it up ya goof..
@@treignsinblood pick your fights better. I fight and work to create businesses for future farmers. Oh I am in this fight deeper and like longer than you.
@@robertsteck6875 Farming is the business. What are you doing? It sounds like you are interfering. Farmers don't need additional businesses, they need less monopolies purchasing their goods while undercutting their profits.
@@-._.-KRiS-._.- no shit Sherlock
I lived in Seattle 25 years ago. The common saying was "Friends don't let friends drink Starbucks". I always went to indies and they were everywhere.
Why'd your state give Idaho Starbucks and not Indies? Never heard of Indies. We have Moxie and Flying M but I think Flying M is the only local bean joint we have.
I know...while visiting Seattle I noticed....very few people go to Starbucks. So refreshing. We need that everyone. This man is a menace to human beings everywhere.
I WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT UNIONS!!!! I DON'T GO TO STARBUCKS ANYMORE. THE AMERICAN WORKERS HAVE TO SUPPORT EACH OTHER. KEEP FIGHTING!!! GO UNIONS.
Exactly! Neither do I, I donate to my local group of Starbucks workers that are trying to unionize. The workers may not be able to talk about unions but when I’m in a Target that has a Starbucks I always start up a conversation right in front about the how Starbucks is a Union busting greedy corporation.
@@ariw9405 that's great!!!!!! The big corporations will spend alot of money to try to stop the unions. They can't stay in business without workers to work in them.keep fighting and stick together. GO UNIONS!!!!!!!!
@@dankdank161 people like you were what the robber barons of the early 20th century were depending on. People like you are what the oligarchy are depending on today. That's what Hitler dependedon in 2nd world War. They depend on cowards to scared to fight for what's right. I tried to ignore you. Now I'm just saying if the people stay together they absolutely will win. ITS THE AMERICAN WAY.
Agreed
Where the hell is the government? We the taxpayers are forced to subsidize the employees of MULTI BILLION DOLLAR COMPANIES because they refuse to pay them a living wage. There should be jail time for the CEO and board of directors. They are ruining peoples lives for just living. Massive props to all the workers with the guts to stand up to such a disgusting company.
Where do u think slurping that compare sausage
Congress has tied the hands of the NLRB by taking away their right to give and enforce monetary fines. Meaning their is no incentive to even listen to them. It is time to start voting for those who will back unions and calling/emailing those currently in congress to the point of harassment to enact change.
The government supports these millionaire companies. We must end their dictatorship.
The state serves the interest of capital.
Well, considering what they did to rail workers...
You're a "partner", you're "family", until you do something they don't like.
But you still have rights that’s the difference
@@ariw9405 I don't follow could you elaborate please?
Anywhere that frames their work as “a family” is definitely a toxic environment.
@@ariw9405 Not if the bourgeoisie had anything to say about it, guess who fought for those rights in the first place
Dude what are you talking about? You’re an employee until you blow it and get fired. This is nobody’s fault but her own.
Damn, Starbucks owes them the money lost due to their wrongful termination, but also some sort of payment for the mental distress throwing people into homelessness and insecure housing entails. That's a lot to go through! What a shameful business.
How Petty the Starbucks have to be to go after individual employees so they don't get jobs elsewhere?
They have to smack those people hard to terrify the rest. It's not petty.
@@grmpEqweer It's definitely *petty* when the powerful attack the helpless.
@@danusdragonfly6640 they know that all of us together are not helpless, but actually hold more power than them, so they have to suppress and divide us
@@dustinger First it was royals, then it was robber barons, now it is corporations. Time to put an end to it for once and for all!
@@danusdragonfly6640 I think he was pointing to that it’s part of a bigger picture strategy to union bust.
Petty is when the bigger power won’t even gain anything from the extra insult to injury.
How you help them out and fight back is by customers boycotting Starbucks, until they stop union busting their employees.
5:11 'It does not end after you're fired, there is always more, because Starbucks just won't stop, even after you're fired they want to make sure your voice is as diluted as possible'
- Joselyn Chuquillanqui | 7 yrs at Starbucks
God I'm so glad I don't live in the US but in Europe. We might not be as rich as Americans on average, but we don't go bankrupt due to medical bills, we don't get sanctioned for being union members, quite the opposite.
IMO the main difference is that unions in Europe (or at least in Germany where I live) work WITH management to get the best result for everyone, including the employees. It's generally a constructive relationship and management very often listen to unions when it's about the future of the company. In Germany we do not care about short-term gain, we care about long-term sustainability of the company and that includes employees.
I have worked with 2 American companies here in SE Asia and with the influx of American companies since the late 70's, the local government has slowly moved from European mindset to American ones. Heck, even Tesla's EMusk is now here trying to "improve the lives of our people". Oh sh!t!!
" We might not be as rich as Americans on average, but we don't go bankrupt due to medical bills" Exactly.
The problem with averages is that they make it easy to hide the details. Most Europeans are far better off than most Americans. Rich Americans are quite a bit richer than rich Europeans, and that's what skews the average.
Americans aren't rich. 82% of households have an income over $25,000. That's two people earning $6.01+/hr each. 62% of households have an income over $50,000. That's two people earning $12.02+/hr each. 34% of households have an income over $100,000. That's two people earning $24.04+/hr each. 1% of households have an income over $500,000. That's two people earning $120+/hr each.
As you can see, the majority of Americans are earning between $12 to $24/hr. 50% of Americans cannot cover a $400 emergency without going into some kind of debt, like a credit card or a payday loan. There isn't a single one bedroom apartment that anyone across America can rent while earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr.
Remember, not only do Americans have to pay taxes they also have to pay monthly health insurance fees. There are separate fees for vision and dental insurance, as well. Car insurance, home/rental insurance, property taxes, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, inheritance tax, plus all the stupid fees: atm fees, parking fees, event parking fees, birthing fees, burial fees, late fees, interest fees, fees to get a birth certificate after child is born, etc.
Our paychecks may look "bigger" compared to European salaries but thousands get taken out in taxes/fees for the average worker and what we take home gets spent on additional taxes/fees plus housing, food, utilities and retirement savings/investments (legalized gambling). We have several 2 bedroom homes in my city in Idaho going for $600,000. I was looking at properties in cities around London and the most expensive I found were no more than 340,000 pounds. And it came with a circular glass sunroom and a fully fleshed out garden. You guys don't do square footage so I couldn't tell how big it was but it had THREE bedrooms! That sunroom was gorgeous. We don't have sunrooms like that in the States. The best we have are rectangular porches with screens stapled onto the posts and a covered roof so the only light that gets in is from the screens. Also, you guys don't have to refrigerate your eggs. I could save so much fridge space if I didn't have to refrigerate eggs.
@@etee7114 Well, Elon is from South Africa. He later got his Canadian and American residency. He's an authoritarian capitalist, for sure.
@@-._.-KRiS-._.- I meant on average. On average the US are the richtest country in the history of the planet. Of course, the US also have the highest number of multi-billionaires in the world, which usually points to an extreme inequality in income.
All work has dignity. The precarity of these workers is a policy choice by capital and the state. I wish them all the best of luck in getting justice. Their bravery is unimaginable.
The 40+ year olds have been indoctrinated into reaganomics. They are too far scared to lift a finger against the hand they think feeds them. Great video!
Not all of us 40+, but overall agree
I just turned 40, and am a revolutionary communist and member of CPUSA, PSL, and am slowly organizing my local community. While it's true that there's many an old reactionary, we mustn't lose sight that this is a class struggle, and there's plenty of older comrades too
43 year old socialist comrade.
I am disgusted by my peers .
@@kckush5046 Yes, nearly all of us. We couldn’t escape it, we could only question it and resist it.
50 years old this year, and I'm a Socialist. But for too much of my life I was duped by Reaganomics and its conservative successors. I've found that much of the political divide in my generation boils down to those Gen Xers who managed to get a house and those of us who are still paying monthly rent for an apartment. We have to thwart wealthy class exploitation-worker solidarity!
Cheers from Spokane, cousins! Fight the power! We stand with you!
FIGHT THE POWER!! SOLIDARITY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, STAY STRONG!!
Katie is extremely bright and intelligent, I think what she's doing is honorable, and I wish her nothing but the best!
Wow! I'm deleting my app! Smh!
When can we automate upper management?
Most middle management could be done away with completely and absolutely nothing would change for the better or worse within companies, so, yeah, sure. Makes more sense than ignoring the needs of the people on the front lines who actually know how the job works and what it needs for improvements.
To each and every one of you young amazing people I salute you! Keep fighting for what you deserve. I am so immensely proud of you for standing up to the corporate greed. If you are or were a Starbucks consumer take that money and put it into the movement for unionizing.
I’m a shareholder of Starbucks, and still I completely support all these people! Corporations need to be held accountable and treat their employees as human
I hope many more locations unionize
Unfortunately, thousands of other shareholders of Starbucks do not share that view of yours, instead having a "show me the money" mindset that reinforces this corporate anti-union stance.
Thanks I won't be going to Starbucks again.
Solidarity Forever! Solidarity Forever! Only Union Makes Us Strong!
I quit supporting Starbucks many years ago when I noticed them suddenly moving into the retail spaces where a mom and pop coffee shop was just located.
Then a few months later closing shop.
I don't know if they are buying out these shops, or having their leases revoked just to eliminate any competition.
Heartbreaking
"We have the best government money can buy." Mark Twain
As a millenial I'm sorry it's up to Gen Z to save us, but dear god I'm rooting for them
May they be merciful as the guillotines let them be
Same here. It's funny, though, there are many people that still don't seem to realize that Gen Z exists and continue to shite on us Millennials for all of society's ills. For 20+ years our generation has been blamed and hammered for anything and everything; now that we are middle aged it's not 'cute' anymore, it's getting old. I aim to stand up for any Gen Z because I don't want to see them get the same treatment as us.
And, I have to say, it must be really weird living a life that constantly shites on your children, grandchildren and, now, great grandchildren (shoutout to Gen Alpha, who shouldn't be on TH-cam because you're not old enough yet).
My daughter was just unlawfully terminated 😡 May all these workers get justice!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Money Money money, profits above all else at any cost. Capitalism.
The U S is at 10 percent union and must get to 35 percent union to stop this corporate bulldozers from running over young people like this. Corporations have the money to take care of their employees, but they choose not to. Hang tough, hang together, and hang strong, union strong.
Capitalism is crapitalism
She deserves better from this country.
Unions made the middle class President and Chief Executive Officer Total Compensation $20,425,162
Source?
@@ariw9405 history books and google
You are not willing to sell your soul for a corporation hun, that is the difference between you and them.
When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun
Corporate behaviour like this radicalises workers who were indifferent. Rise up and support one another, brothers and sisters, because you can bet the corporations would see you dead before seeing you proud.
As we have seen with Amazon allowing workers to die during a tornado lest they stop working to get to safety.
"The NLRB ruling could help them recover tens of thousands of dollars" and Starbucks could make every single wrongfully fired worker go through the process of putting their life on hold while struggling through a (possibly prolonged) lawsuit and living without money while the suit grinds on.
I am glad, they won in court. But I don't think that amounts to justice.
They just got back what was stolen from them Justice would mean, that Starbucks get a significant punishment for what they did.
Thank you organizers so much for your courage! Don't give up! There is no future without young people and the older people who can't see that are shooting themselves in the foot. Brave young people with conviction are what all of humanity needs more than anything
i hope so
INVESTIGATE HOME DEPOT 😡
Modern day USA makes most fictional dystopias look tame.
is there a place that acts as "the third place" & it actually pays workers enough to afford a house/apartment by themselves?
Not at the moment but companies are working on building housing for their employees so they can entrap them further. Can't quit the job because then you'd lose your place to live. I believe Costco is one of the companies considering this. I'm sure Amazon and Walmart are not far behind.
Union Strong ✊
Starbucks are putting out these stupid feelgood ads which is more expensive than actually paying their employees fairly in multiple states.
The 40 yr olds can see it, greed blinds them. Solidarity
Man working in the us seems like a nightmare
I would love to see a crowd-sources employee-owned competitor - these are the people that make the business - not the other way around.
5:41 the good news, the helpers
As Mr.Rogers mother once told him “look for the people helping.” ❤
i hate i have to day this... but if youre living out of your car, moving blankets make great insulation. you can tack em over your windows and use em as a regulat blanket.
There is something wrong. They CAN see the problem. It is a FEATURE-NOT A BUG.
Could not the union put up a blockade of the shops, until legal matters have been settled or an agreement had been reached?
Not a Union Starbucks? I'm out.
my question is what is a 17 year old doing more or less living on her own being homless.
Well Starbucks is an entry level job. Like tons of people in many jobs, people aged out of the range of entry level are working entry level jobs. Companies need to adapt to reality. With entry level wages, unreliable tips, often long hours worked, long commutes, and unreliable housing, all of which comes with entry level jobs- I’m not saying should come with I’m saying tend to come with- companies, in order to hire responsibly, need to adopt their rules to these needs. Because this is America, outside of local and state and federal laws these things don’t get regulated or corrects automatically… it’s fair enough to unionize. Starbucks could view it as an opportunity instead of an impediment, an opportunity to stay competitive in a world saturated with entry level food service jobs. … If they’re unhappy about clothes they could provide uniforms- a nice white shirt and nice pants and sweater looks good on anyone. … They should pay for this themselves. … America does have a tradition of being pro union and of union jobs being a path to success for people, not small success but the kind of success that buys homes and supports families. … a termination that is right or wrong is bad on a job references list, because you usually want to stay a year, so if one is terminated it potentially impacts them long past leaving their former job. …
I'll never solicit a non-unionized Starbucks ever again. Asking all the Starbucks in my area through Google Maps if their employees are unionized.
Hell yeah!
"Be careful what you ask for, you just may get it"
Not buying Starbucks anymore as of today
So you should have been fired. I had a similar situation with a few co-workers years ago and without blinking "THEY" were gone. When you start jobs like these you have to understand that most of them (employer) are not unionized and if you turn around and you try to make a union the owners don't want that so I have no sympathy for you. As for the moron wearing union pins that's asking for trouble right from the get go. Society has really become pretty uneducated in the last 20 years..SMH
He has no sympathy for equality and justice under the law, got it DB.
What kind of parent allows their child to end up in this situation? Not only is it cruel, it’s illegal to kick a 17 year old out.
Not if they are emancipated. Even if not, no cop is going to arrest an adult for kicking out an almost 18-year-old. My mom kicked me out at 17 so I moved in with my dad for a year. My mom was upset with me because I'd stay late at work. She didn't like me coming home at 2 in the morning. I would always try to stay as late as I could because I didn't want to be at home with her. Sounds like this girl might not have had her father close by or his support. I know it's illegal to be homeless, but if she plays it safe, she won't be bothered by the cops much. As a now 40-year-old woman, if I didn't have a kid, I'd live in my car. These $1600 rents for one bedroom apartments are insane.
Where can we donate to their fund?
NOOOOO HE TOOK OUT HIS 401k!?!? Omggggg
Howard is a true pos…solidarity from AcNj ✊💪✌️
What happened to Starbucks? I thought it was like a great place to work?
This isnt gonna stop until the penalty for this stuff is jail time for executives
why are starbucks firing unionized workers if they know its illegal??
Because they're counting on getting away with it. When you're a giant corporation, having to pay a fine that is a tiny fraction of your annual revenue is just "the cost of doing business". Corporates do shit like this all the time. If the cost of complying with the law is greater than the fine for breaking it, they'll break it.
Schultz should be ashamed for allowing his “baby” to be taken over by a greedy, grubbing exec team.
There’s a $.40 difference between 3 stores within 6 miles of eachother. The noise volume is brutal. Hell, McD’s is quieter. The stores are cavernous and about as welcoming as a blister.
A shame, as the kids working there are hard workers.
Corporate greed at it’s worst.
great news as a next step. And the 2 railroad disasters are the big opportunities now for public interest.
Support local small coffee shops 💪
The forty-plus-year-olds do see that what they're doing is immoral. They just don't care. It's not their age that makes them do it, though -- it's their selfishness and their fear.
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How does anyone keep buying Starbucks? Buy local or invest in your coffee machine.
What local coffee shops? Starbucks, Dutch Bros, and The Human Bean drove them all out of business.
Starbucks damn well should pay her millions of dollars. They are inhumane. I never go to any of their stores and neither do my friends or associates. Plus their products are rubbish.
skip trial send howie schultz to the electric chair, give every partner $1 million
Lol tens of thousands! What is that, one months earnings for that one Starbucks?
#MorePerfectUnion #ThisIsWhy #ThisIsAmerica This is exactly why @Starbucks and it's trash ass coffee must be defunded. #DefundStarbucks #UnionizeStarbucks
Никогда такого не было и вот опять
Dump the bosses off your back.
Good for you. Watch out world here she comes. I got chills when she said" I'm going to work my ass off to be an attorney."
So you think you want a union, do you? Be very careful what you ask for, you may get it.
Abolish capitalism and promote solidarity thru socialism. ✊
That would be communism but, yes, the public ownership of the means of production would be good, too.
I will never buy from a Starbucks again in my life
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Now I really want to live in the USA.
FREEDUMB!!!!
Only in America.
But hey, we're number one - right?
What are we if - by default - congress primarily protects billionaires, while our media celebrates them, as 'geniuses'?
Why people buy their shit coffee is beyond me.
Oh they can plainly see taht people are suffering, they just don't care
I think it is delusional to think multibillion corporation gives a shit about its employees. They fake it well but when it comes down, your just a meat puppet until they can figure out how replace you with robotics..
Never when renewing a lease have I been asked to re-produce my income statements. Not sure what that guy is talking about.
You should see what the landlords are asking for now. It's like the Wild West out there for renters.
I want to know what you need is representing these kids
And we all thought the days of "Norma Rae" were in the past.
but these billionaires are going to save us and the world 🤣🤣🤣🤣
a 17 yr old wouldnt know good/bad or fair/unfair workplaces when they are getting their first job. and starbucks workers dont get injured lifting up drinks, take a number you are all about 1 millionth in line for people who need union protections at their work
That's a stupid fucking argument, younger people need even MORE protections. They're much easier to exploit due to naivete, unions are for everyone, not just people who risk physical harm.
Stop gatekeeping workers rights it's really lame.
These people are about to start a union at Berger King next
Yeah and Bernie Sanders is going to subpoena Howard Shultz the CEO.
There are more homes than homeless people.
And there are no affordable homes for first time home buyers. Go fig.
I hate starshit but I hate the union even more
You prefer child labor and 60+ hour work weeks? Unions abolished child labor and gave us the 40-hour work week.
@@-._.-KRiS-._.- wow you suppose a lot
@@-._.-KRiS-._.- Unions were needed at one point now they are a problem they only consume .