Starbucks employees are getting more pay and new benefits, but some are only going to baristas that haven’t unionized. A National Labor Relations Board judge previously found that similar moves by Starbucks violate federal labor law, with the company appealing the decision.
The question of which workers get what perks and benefits has been one part of a bitter fight between Starbucks and union organizers across the country. Since the first location voted to unionize nearly two years ago, Starbucks has fought aggressively against the union drive. The NLRB has said that in some cases, the company engaged in illegal practices, with Starbucks refuting these claims.
As of mid-October, nearly 360 stores had voted in favor of a union, with the results certified by the NLRB. About 70 voted against, with those results certified. There are roughly 9,300 company-operated Starbucks locations in the United States.
Starbucks is really trying hard to ruin the reputation they built over the last 30 years. This is the reason i don’t go to Starbucks anymore.
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McD’s coffee is really good. They changed it a bunch of years ago, and it got so much better. It’s my personal favorite for drive-thru coffee.
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I feel like Starbucks is bad coffee. It’s an excellent coffee-flavored carrier for syrups and creams, so if you want a dessert drink, it’s great. But if all you want is coffee, it’s flat burnt shit.
Starbucks is pretty bad coffee. Beans are mid, their roast time is terrible and everything tastes burned unless you layer it in whip and syrup.
And its highly over caffinated compred to normal coffee so if you do go to sbux, any coffee you get elsewhere is sure to not feel like enough chemically. Their decaf coffee can contain as much caffien as some caffinated teas.
I’m not sure why Starbucks is fighting this so hard. The ones that did unionize only got slightly better things and they’ve never striked before. People are too comfortable being marginalized.
Because management fucking hates unions. It’s not about making a rational strategic decision; it’s about being enraged at being forced to give up even the tiniest bit of power.
This, its about the principle about not having complete power.
Also that corporate media pushes anti-union hard 24/7 and has done so since the inception of unions.
If SB concedes to unions, that will set a precedent for every other big company, and billionaires have better solidarity than workers do.
It is probably about more than wages. Unions can enforce a lot of additional standards and practices, like requiring minimum staffing or preventing the scheduling of clopens.
Union members will get whatever increases were locked in last year, which vary. That means that many workers will get the 3% or 4% hike, and some the 5%, even if they are unionized. But the company will not offer new increases in pay, or vacation accrual benefits, to unionized workers — unless it is forced to concede those based on collective bargaining negotiations.
Not to be mean, but a 5% increase on a $15 an hour job is like an extra $0.75.
Did they think this was bargain power? What the people who are non-unionized every year get a free soda? And that was supposed to make them jealous?
I think they are poking a bear, they should be leaving alone.
That’s about the annual raise I get at my job and it’s an office job. Why yes, it does suck.
That amount doesn’t even keep up with inflation. We’re all getting pay cuts every year.
Exactly. I am on FMLA right now, so I am not even getting paid. But I’m using the time to look for another job.
Do you want strikes? Because that’s how you get strikes.
So everyone should remain upset about the illegality of this, and how it’s anti-union.
But it’s also good news because they’ve shifted focus. They’re focused on disincentivizing unions rather than directly shutting down unionized locations. They probably can’t afford to shut down unionized locations anymore.
This is quite the de-escalation. This will continue on this trend, which is why all current and further anti-union activity must be challenged.
JC capitalism, are you trying to eat yourself?
ok? I mean that’s how unions work. does starbucks think they won or something?
Any business that asks for a tip in the dive thru doesn’t get my business. It’s a fucking drive thru
