i agree. idk how i'd get started at my store but i can try and maybe see who else is interested. im also in GA and yeah, my entire store staff freakin hates the new policy. already we have so many people in the store for mobile and takeout orders who arent wearing masks... our location is 2nd busiest in our district and once our l Iobby opens we're screwed basically. 🙃

so do u know anyone who could give me pointers on organizing w/o a union? also what would that look like? i consider myself pretty well liked at my store so ppl might listen to me, i just dunno what i'd say or where to start.

I'm interested too. My store has been forced to remain open until 11 at night (including cafe), which makes us one of the only stores in our district that remains open this late. The night crew consists of primarily women and the amount of pirates and drug dealers (which the cops have been called a handful of times by the neighboring senior rentals building) lurking around our parking lot and the surrounding areas is concerning to say the least. We've all voiced our concerns and begged both our DM and our manager to let us at least lock our doors at 10 but they downright refuse. Not only that, but we're always terribly understaffed, always given an unfair amount of tasks to complete (in 30 minutes, might I add) and despite the very obvious safety concerns, they ignore us. And on top of that, our district manager is known to downright force people to transfer to other stores or will persistently bully someone into transferring. Everyone at my store who works night feel absolutely hopeless and at a complete loss of what to do, social feel like this would be a good thing

regarding your convo about the masks with the redditor before, it really pisses me off too that people are only going to do the wrong thing and put us in danger. thankfully im fully vaccinated, but its not right to force those who arent into a vulnerable position like this. i used to work at a store in FL, and am still in their convos because ill be returning from a transfer, and all of their plexiglass screens are gone 😨. i hope your coworkers are able to get the vaccine when they can. i try to tell myself that this is just a form of natural selection intended to take out the dummies who pretend to be vaccinated so that i dont get so upset.

Man, Unionizing would be amazing. We had to work for 6 hours with vomit on our floors because our SM decided we didn’t need to close. That’s a health code violation if I’m not mistaken. We’re constantly understaffed, to the point that one of our partners couldn’t take it and just walked out last night. I am 100% behind a union

check out /r/UnionizeStarbucks too we collect unionizing resources there

Interested but currently leaving Starbucks for a career in my field of choice, last day June 1st :-/ here to help regardless

i work in a grocery store sbux and we’re unï0nized through the store and it honestly has not helped us at all. the store never enforced the mask rules and now not even our baristas are wearing masks. i ended up catching covid from the store and was sick over christmas. our manager has bullied multiple baristas into quitting and sexually harassed one before they finally quit. the un!0n did NOTHING to help us. absolutely not trying to rain on your parade but you should be warned that it’s not always all it’s cracked up to be

Dude masks are going to go away the more people get vaccinated. You had to have known this was coming. get over it