Yes and no. Canadian laws are a bit more favourable to employees, Walmart got into trouble for closing stores after being unionized. I'd expect Starbucks to take a very strong position over this, I can imagine the store suddenly being deemed unprofitable and it being closed. If word spreads that it's unionized across Canada and the US, it could cause a wave of similar events. It might cost the company a fair bit to fight it out, but it'll buy them time (and fear).

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Its slightly harder to do that in Canada in general, and harder again in British Columbia.

I hope they will. I'm pushing for unionizing along side them in my area of Canada as speak. Fingers crossed, but we need to take this shit seriously and join in the struggle.

I had one of those meetings yesterday. I appreciated hearing the other partners in our district having the same issues as our store. I didn’t appreciate our DM saying he can’t promise more labour when that was the ask from all four of us when we spoke. It seemed reasonable to us! Of course, the customer connection was dangled above our heads instead.

Dont peddle this shit.

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I've been with starbucks for four years, I've given them so much energy, and my mental and PHYSICAL health.

They don't care about us. They always claim they care about what we want, but never give us what we want. Fuck em. We need to take what we are owed, because they won't give it to us. Never have, never will.

I dont understand how "trying to understand" is in any way good or uplifting? They always push this line. Always. And what has come from it? We always tell them the same thing too: better wages, better benefits, more labour, and recently with covid, better sick leave and safer conditions. They don't care, they still always do the bare minimum to make them seem like the less evil company out of all the other evil companies. That's where the bar is. Ants can't even make it under it its so low.