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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2021 - 05 - 22 - ID#nikpaz
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Anyone called out today? Me and a couple other of my partners did. (i.redd.it)
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LatteMaster 28 points 2y ago
Pretty much pointless considering 50 unorganized partners calling out is more likely to just get people fired.
InconsistentUse 26 points 2y ago
This strike made me so furious. I want a strike, a good one, that was organized, had more than a week of warning, and got some fucking news coverage. If you want to call a strike, please for the love of god get in contact with some union organizations like the teamsters or the iww or the food service union and get tips and instructions on how to run one.

We should be starting on the district level. Get organized with the other stores in your area. Make a list of specific, attainable demands and THEN get local media involved, and state media if you can swing it. You cant just push it onto twitter and reddit. You gotta put some thought in it

Edit: if we really wanna hurt starbucks, we'd initiate a slow-down
mrsfrankenstud 7 points 2y ago
It's interesting to me that no one wants to "rock the boat" with holding this company responsible. May day is celebrated annually because laborers had to literally fight and lost their lives for adequate workplace conditions for our generation to say "they'll be mad if I stand up for myself!"
Of course they will! Everyone would rather show up and put up with it rather than put our collective voice together to drown out the opposition. Blows my mind. Make life for them as miserable as they make it for us; all corporate giants.
navkabar 8 points 2y ago
that's the whole point though, is that this "strike" didnt hurt the company at all. it's an embarrassment
mthrowaway311 5 points 2y ago
great, you guys screwed over your team and probably pissed off a lot of your coworkers. i’m all for strikes and unions but this is just embarrassing and rude.
navkabar 4 points 2y ago
children.
mrsfrankenstud 3 points 2y ago
Because not enough employees are pissed enough or have the outright knowledge about what's going on in the spheres above our pay grade. The subtle manipulation, the lack of support from superiors, the labor shortages that we keep getting gaslit about.
Alana_Chowdhury_ 1 points 2y ago
Today was my day off but I shared it to my group chat!
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medusas-garden 14 points 2y ago
Yeah, nobody at my store called out today but the day was still traumatic and would’ve been even more horrible if even only one person called out. This “strike” was way too disorganized and there wasn’t a collective push to strike so the only thing it would’ve accomplished is make life harder for other partners. I’m not happy with everything Starbucks does but I feel like we have other options we can exercise before deciding to strike. That’s gotta be a last resort imo and, again, a collective decision instead of a few people mentioning a strike and the few odd partners that see it actually calling out
Lilium816 5 points 2y ago
Attend the virtual board meetings and vote against executive bonuses.

Sign up for partner perspectives and go that route.
Realistic-Active-416 1 points 2y ago
I’ve never heard about the virtual board meetings, what are they?
Lilium816 1 points 2y ago
They show up in the weekly update when they happen.

We're called "partners" because we are all, technically speaking, partners of the company; we all own stocks. So we have a voice in all the decisions the company makes about policies.

Starbucks' board meetings are huge events that pre-covid could be attended in person, but since the pandemic they've all been virtual.

Owning stocks in a publicly traded company means you are a part-owner. Granted, a very small portion.
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