Yeah but it takes a couple thousand off of the year end bonus everyone in corporate will miss out on. So it wont last long. They want their bonuses

Thank you!!! Let’s not let them forget that they can afford to pay us an extra $3 an hour and give us a month of paid vacation off and it’s no sweat off their back.

UNIONIZE

I remember seeing in the holiday update that the cardboard sleeve on the paninis was going away and that would save sbux $2mil or something like that. I remember pointing that out to some partners saying “we won’t see a penny of that”
Maybe this $3 is from that, same with cat pay.
But either way my store (FL) has been busier since we shut down our lobby and other non drive thru stores.
I totally agree that they can afford this and should keep it after this is over. Like many of you have said this was what felt like the first liveable wage you’ve seen. This past pay period I had money left over for the first time that I didn’t know what to do with. And it was great.
I don’t know off the top of my head if my district or even my state has announced a date that things will start opening back up but it doesn’t seem like it will happen soon. And I’d hate to be one to say that Starbucks isn’t doing enough but they are now. And it should stay that way.

Has there been talk of them taking it away? I heard it was for as long as the pandemic

And they can afford that while a large amount of their stores are shut and are still paying most of their staff. Even if people at corporate are losing their bonuses this month, they'd have no issue with this raise after they're back to maximum functionality.
It honestly just highlights how shitty they are if they don't maintain it.

Afford to forever and afford to for 1 month are wildly different. It’s incredible we got a raise at all imo

I think that this deserves to be a top level comment. It's in response to this comment in the top voted thread:

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>/u/_existentialthreat
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>Is that true?!

I mean kinda? In reality that money is rightfully our's and everyone other woker (mainly farmers, but also deliverers, packaging, developing etc).

It's sheer profit that the company has access to. But the higher ups have some kind of comission or incentive to cut costs, and the main costs (who let marx in here) is wages. Cut down on that and your profit margins go up. The only way for supplies to become cheaper is if the cost of wage-labour to produce/harvest/extract those supplies goes down.

Example: Say that instead of cutting down on our wages, they want to cut down on supply costs, well the workers that produce those supplies, say coffee or cocoa, need to be paid less.

You might say Ah! What about automation? Well what is automation if not peak wage cutting? But then you might say AH! but what about an increase in that automations efficiency? Well that's not really changing anything. All there doing is selling more, not selling cheaper. Their profit margin hasn't changed unless the cost of wages somewhere in the chain of production is cut.

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We need to demand fair compensation, their profits be damned. And not just for us, but for every worker.

The point was to incentivize people to work so that the people who are actually working weren’t being paid the same as people who decided to take what is essentially a paid leave. If there isn’t that option there isn’t a reason to incentivize people to work. The option would be work or take an unpaid LOA or quit. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be paid more, but that’s a different conversation. A multi billion dollar company makes billions of dollars because they have a huge number of stores to make that money (among other avenues) and closing down stores loses them revenue as WELL as paying employees that aren’t working. A billion dollars is an insane amount of money for an individual but not for a corporation.

by that logic the company has also proven they can afford to pay us even if we don’t come to work at all. just because they can do something temporarily during a crisis doesn’t mean they can do it indefinitely. the company is running off cash reserves right now and those are finite.

I am transferring to a store that is reopening as of May 13th, so yeah I guess some will be reopening soon

They’re diverting pretty much all revenue to partners right now. Facilities and maintenance issues are not being completed to save costs. Not shipping certain things, not building new stores, not hiring and training new managers. What they’re doing right now is sustainable for immediate future during all this but not long term. But believe me there are conversations higher up talking about pay rate for baristas changing.

We have all been getting paid without work...you know how many people have lost their jobs??? Sit down.