Thousands of unionized Starbucks workers will walk off their jobs on Thursday, with the one-day work stoppages coming to protest the company’s stance with shops that voted to organize, according to Starbucks Workers United.
The labor action is timed to for Starbucks’ Red Cup Day, an annual event in which the coffee giant hands out holiday-themed reusable cups. Starbucks has refused to negotiate in good faith over staffing and other issues that are particularly acute during promotions, according to the union.
“Starbucks is creating unnecessarily stressful working conditions by scheduling promotion after promotion without increasing staffing,” Neha Cremin, a Starbucks worker in Oklahoma City, said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch. “Starbucks has made it clear that they won’t listen to workers, so we’re advocating for ourselves by going on strike.”
it was so cruel working a food service job where every so often they’d do cutesy little promo days or sales days (over dumb completely made up little folk holidays or ad campaign traditions like this); they cook up this sort of faux-positive team-spirit attitude about ‘getting thru it’ or whatever, like a band of soldiers. and at the end of the day, you’re worn out, stressed, you got paid the same shitty wage you got paid yesterday, the company doubled their profits, which all go off to some dickhead in ohio who didn’t do shit, but looked forward to today like christmas
and i love how after 2020 now it’s just par for the course for restaurants to always be understaffed because it’s cheaper. this stupid fucking country is falling apart.
Businesses used to give their workers Christmas bonuses for doing things like that.
and i love how after 2020 now it’s just par for the course for restaurants to always be understaffed because it’s cheaper.
But don’t forget the managers and business owners complaining “people don’t want to work” and blaming Democrats, unions, unemployment benefits, and “kids these days”
Why Ohio?
I haven’t bought anything at a Starbucks in several years so, I’m doing my part 👍
Make your coffee at home folks, it ain’t hard.
Or support a local Cafe that treats their workers right. Can be hard to find, but they do exist.
I’ll support them if they give me a better deal, lol.
I always find it funny how local places are like “yeah buy local buy local, it’s so important. No, it’s not important enough for us to give you a better deal.”
I hear ya on that. My philosophy is that if I’m going out for coffee I’ll pay for a good one from a local Cafe. Most mornings I’ll make it at home to compensate for the cost.
That’ll surely fix it. As soon as I start making coffee at home, the several Starbucks near me will no longer have a line out the door that they don’t have enough staff to keep up with.
Vote with your wallet like it’s your ballot. Is it gonna be the society-shattering vote? No. Is it a step on a marathon to make society a better place? Yep
It won’t fix it. But no particular snowflake causes an avalanche.
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Would you buy eggs from a farmer that kicks their chickens because everyone else is doing it?
One of the first shops to unionize was on Main Street in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan. Starbucks recently announced a number of closings and surprisingly enough, that shop is one of the stores being closed. Corporate swears the closing has nothing to do with the union.
Apparently a shop operating successfully for over 20 years in a high visibility, heavy foot trafficked area of a college town is just a recipe for failure.
Any customer crossing the picket line – or even getting a red cup from a not-yet-unionized store, for that matter – is a class traitor.
Not if they’re a billionaire!
I don’t get it. Shouldn’t we want to overwhelm the business when workers aren’t there?
Starbucks should see how much profit they’re missing out on and have to deal with all the angry customers.
It’s November 16th. That’s the Red Cup Day. I assume CBS didn’t add the date to the article because they don’t give a shit if customers accidentally cross a picket line.
It says “Thursday,” which, assuming the the article was written and posted this week, is a perfectly adequate way of conveying the date of the protest. Not that I think CBS has workers’ interests in mind or anything, but we may as well be accurate with our condemnation of corporations.
Wow, Unions work.
I guess this is why the ruling class and useful idiots are so against them.
I plan to go in, use the bathroom, and not buy anything. It is like slacktivism but I get peace and quite while on the can.
I can’t wait for flipppy to be able to do coffee shops. I am so sick of people getting abused at these places while their terrible experiences come out in awful service or products.
Even if starbucks employees all unionize the jobs they have will only exist for a little while.
Should bitch about the cost of living and education rather than how you wanna keep a trash tier job.
Oh no! If they walk out on red cup day, how will all the basic white women get their reusable cup that they’re gonna just post a picture of on their twitter/x before throwing it out after they finish their drink? Won’t they think of the social media influencers who think Starbucks is a high quality luxury status symbol?
Wow what a weirdly racist and sexist thing to say
White isn’t a race
Caffeine isn’t a flavor
Oh snap
Ok
Wait is being racist against white people not cool anymore?
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Ohhhh I’m positive it was.
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Because it worked so well last time that they now do it yearly.
Maybe workers should walk out yearly. Or even more often. Just to show the bosses who they rely on.
This is brilliant. Just like UAW was doing “no-notice” strikes, do an unannounced one day walkout every once in a while. Picket with signs that point out the benefits workers have achieved by striking. Not only would it remind companies of the value of labor, it would keep union solidarity strong among workers. It might even be a step towards a general strike, when such a thing is necessary.
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Nobody said there was a problem? Just pointing out the ineffectiveness of this if it is required to do it yearly.
