Starbucks Tried to Crush Its Baristas. What Happened Next Will Shock You
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ค. 2024
- Starbucks workers have done what many thought was impossible - force one of the largest corporations in the world to negotiate a union contract.
It's a major turning point for Starbucks Workers United and the labor movement.
Here's the inside story on how they did it.
Correction:
0:53 Starbucks and the union reached a joint agreement to create a foundational framework to achieve collective bargaining agreements for represented stores and partners.
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I refuse to spend a cent at Starbucks until I hear good things about the way their employees are treated.
How the hell does Starbucks get away with stealing tips? How can anyone do this to underpaid workers. Disgusting. I have refused to buy Starbucks for years now. I will never give them another penny.
And despite the workers' new unions, Starbucks DIDN'T go out of business, like they told us would happen. Funny how that works, eh...?
All this time, WHERE DID CREDIT CARD TIPPING GO?!?!?!?!
Unions are the main way workers make companies behave within the law and with basic decency.
The corporation kept the tips?! That is some evil corporations shit. That's it. I am never buying Starbucks ever again.
The one thing that has always amazed me in Corporate America is how much time energy and money they will spend on creating a systematic hostile work environment.
It's ridiculous for workers in the USA to be so reliant on tips. Tips are virtually non-existent in Europe because we have a realistic minimum wage.
MPU is doing some of the most important labor journalism of our lifetimes
Too many executives taking $95 out of every $100 and then trying to act like we're supposed to fight over the remaining fiver.
im still waiting for Schulz to make an apology video like the judge ordered
NO TIPPING. STOP. THE POINT OF UNIONS IS TO GET MONEY FROM THE CAPITAL CLASS. NOT TO SUCK MONEY OUT OF THE WORKING CLASS. GET THEM TO PAY WAGES. NOT LET YOU COLLECT TIPS.
Starbucks may have recognized the union, but they closed all of the Starbucks in my small city. There were three, now there are none. I really hope many of these people got jobs with other coffee shops in town (several are union, co-ops).
Starbucks is such a bad representation of the Seattle coffee scene in so many ways.
When I was young, I was anti Union. I just didn't see the value of supporting two opposing sets of executives. As I grew older I became aware that one set of executives considered me a disposable asset who would wear me out and throw me away without any real concern regarding me as a human being. I got a Union job and when I became disabled, my Union saved my home, my marriage, my family and when my rep saw I had become hopelessly depressed, literally saved my life.
Stock is down almost 30%. The company has a negative sales outlook. Won't be long til massive layoffs and store closings. Starbucks brought this on themselves. Hope those baristas find work with real Coffee shops. Not corporate slavery.
As a former Barista, and a current union member (in another industry), I am so proud of these folks! Union strong! ♥
I love seeing some jolly cooperation among workers forcing the boss into compliance
A few years ago I applied for a job at Starbucks. Their application system was extremely tedious to get through (which was a huge red flag for me). I gave up and wound up finding work somewhere else. Glad to see that that decision paid off, 'cuz I've only heard bad things about them since then. Corporate greed is one helluva drug
As a retired union member, I applaud this, thanks to Reagan unions have seen an ugly decline as our jobs were exported to China. We need more unions these Legacy companies can afford a $25 minimum wage. Bravo