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Starbucks Stops Opposing Its Baristas’ Union (prospect.org)

submitted 8 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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[-] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 57 points 8 months 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.

[-] Ersatz86@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago

Google-fu powers, activate!

https://perfectunion.us/map-where-are-starbucks-workers-unionizing/

[-] WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months 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”

[-] Ersatz86@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months 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/2185771/find-the-closest-unionized-starbucks-to-you-with-this-map

[-] june@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Lucky! Mine is too far for convenience, which is the whole point of Starbucks coffee.

[-] TruthAintEasy@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

I know google-fu

Show me

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 5 points 8 months ago

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

[-] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Free. Your. Browser.

[-] Ersatz86@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Insert morpheusbeckoning.gif

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[-] TruthAintEasy@kbin.social 45 points 8 months ago

Good. Every hourly job should be unionized

[+] cedarmesa@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

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[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 75 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 30 points 8 months ago

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

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Because I'm already on your side, and you're still annoying. Good luck convincing anyone who actually disagrees with you, which is the only thing that matters.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 14 points 8 months ago

Yawn, not reading that whiny ass comment.

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

"I'm not going to work to improve my skills or my arguments, and will instead continue to fail". Whatever you want to do, lol

[-] null@slrpnk.net 12 points 8 months ago

The irony is deafening.

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

And which irony is that?

[-] null@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 months ago

Use the context, pal, I believe in you!

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

You don't know, do you? You made the comment, so you back it up.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 months ago

It's really backing itself up the more inane crap you write here.

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

This happens every time I throw out an opinion that's even slightly controversial on Lemmy. Eventually, people realize they're wrong and they can't give me an actual counter point. So they resort to basically what's happening now, which is derailing the conversation by refusing to elaborate when I ask in good faith what they mean. This time, it's some apparent irony that they won't explain, probably because it doesn't even exist. Maybe the person doesn't respond because they are afraid I'll just dismantle their point again.

I mean, I can go back and reread all of messages from the mass of dissenters and try to to rationalize whatever "irony" it is they're talking about, but irony is subjective. And now were left with this permanent internet monument where nobody was able to actually throw out any counter arguments with real substance to them. So I guess I win?

[-] null@slrpnk.net 5 points 8 months ago

You can't seriously be this stupid, but maybe you are so I'll throw you a bone.

You're "arguing" that someone's writing is coming across poorly to the audience and hurting their point. In a thread where the voting record clearly indicates that your writing is coming off poorly to the audience.

Didn't think that needed such a blatant explanation, but here we are.

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Truth isn't determined by popular vote. Just because nobody likes it, doesn't mean it isn't true or that it isn't valid. They may also be downvoting because they don't like my tone, and not because I'm wrong. Besides, this is all just stupid infighting--OP's tonedeafness is shared by a broad group of left-leaning people and is splayed across the news media.

When it comes to convincing right-leaning people, their sentiment is doing legitimate harm to our movement. And at the end of the day, if people refuse to acknowledge my message because of my tone, they're the ones suffering. Conservatives really experience no downside by ignoring us, because they are happy to be classless, bigoted fools. So basically: suck it up and accept it, or continue to be ignored. Whatever.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 5 points 8 months ago

Truth isn't determined by popular vote

But opinion is, and your argument is one of opinion, not facts.

And the prevailing opinion is that you're not worth listening to.

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Lmao. So, you're saying that conservatives are onboard with the whole BLM/minority rights thing, and that people are getting their message across no biggie? Grow up.

Do you want a peer reviewed paper proving that conservatives don't agree with non-conservatives? Hilarious.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

You're so worried about how people are talking and not what they are saying.

Do you really think right wingers really care about the politcs of respectability? They use manners as a cudgel, as you are. Seriously, you're playing their game and creating division by saying that using the so called improper emphasis is some how bad.

I mean way to go on the solidarity fucko.

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You know you've won a discussion when the other person has resorted to calling you stupid, because they can't think of anything worhwhile to say. That's the best indicator that you've lost.

I love it.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago

Ahahaha!

Sure bud, go ahead and chalk this up as a win for yourself. You clearly need it.

🤡

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

You, didn’t do shit other than complain how someone responded to a question.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 29 points 8 months ago

Fuck your tone policing.

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Tone policing! Hahaha. That's a hilarious concept. Fuck your tone policing-policing, then, lmao.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago

Wow, you just don't get it do you?

[-] ricdeh@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Or maybe you don't?

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah, because someone addiing emphasis to their comment is the person whonis driving people away and not the person being a child about how someone speaks.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

I will return once they are.

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months 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

[-] figjam@midwest.social 4 points 8 months 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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