Lol they didn’t do anything. Starbucks is claiming that safety was compromised at a rally. Which in reality. Was not.

Impossible. I'm sure there's more to the story.
The moment this happened you should've called a lawyer and sued friend. There's no legal precedence to back that.

Would you be able to say a little more?

Starbucks sees that it’s slowly losing its grasp over it’s workers now that Unions are becoming more popular and working. To attempt to counter this, they’re saying that they’ve seen negative actions being made in the name of Unions and want to help those poor baristas being affected by them. They’re taking a very small example of something bad and happening very minimally and claiming that in the name of all the partners, are willing to fight this evil Union to protect us :)

I mean the reasons you gave here basically say that the company did something to boycott the union, by raising non union pay, not that unions aren’t effective

You know the unions job is not to make services better right? Thats the company’s job! Unions protect workers, they dont make public transport better lol

Source? Genuinely curious

I have worked MULTIPLE customer service jobs throughout my life, both small business and billion dollar corporate, HOWEVER you are missing the big picture here. the "best" slave wage provider is still providing slave wages and horrible working conditions so "investors" can reap the benefits of our labor while we can't even afford the gas to get to work. this is a BILLION-DOLLAR COMPANY that boasts record breaking profits each year. where did all of that money come from? our wages? cut benefits? price hikes and "labor shortages"?

and how many partners do you know who have 2+ jobs outside of starbucks? how many partners have deliberately been put in danger by unsafe working conditions? how many times has management broke protocol and kept stores open during covid outbreaks and contaminated water events because profit was more important than customer health and safety? how often are you faced with "labor cuts" that leave you short staffed, overworked, doing the job of 3 baristas, and all during peak where you have a packed lobby full of angry customers and a drive thru line that wraps around your parking lot for hours? how many times have your openers walked into a trashed store because closers didn't have the support they needed?

if you are personally fine with being exploited so a billionaire CEO can buy himself a new mega yacht/private jet/etc., that's fine, but don't you dare come in here being condescending to people who are tired of being treated like shit by a company whose entire PR campaign is based off of what a "great" place to work it is.

corporate heads can afford to give themselves and their lawyers $100 million dollar golden parachutes, bleed tens of millions of dollars in legal fees each week in union busting efforts, but they can't afford to pay us a living wage? they can't afford to let us keep covid pay when we are deliberately exposed and forced to get sick AT WORK? they can afford to not break us and burn us out, so why are they still choosing to attack our efforts to stand up for ourselves and hold starbucks accountable to its own values?

don't even get me started on that garbage health insurance they "offer" but do their best to make sure you can't take advantage of.

anyway tl;dr i'm not ok with being treated like i'm not a human being who needs to live, and you need to realize your experience isn't universal.

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I don’t think you’re entirely wrong about us being better than most places but unionizing could solve problems like ensuring we keep our benefits long-term, reducing turnover, and protecting us from being fired at any time for any reason. Other than union dues which are a very small price to pay I don’t see how it would be a negative for us. Right now our benefits can be taken away any moment or changed, which is what has happened several times since covid, in many places we are not allowed to stay over or pick up shifts unless there are labor hours for it, so our hours are still severely limited and people who want badly to work can’t. Just because we have it better than most doesn’t mean we can’t make it better? A lot of people want to stay at Starbucks longterm to go to school like with ASU but it’s not a sustainable longterm job. If anything, unionizing will turn Starbucks into a typical part-time first job for a 16 year old into a reliable, stable job for people who need to support themselves through school or help support their families. It may be farfetched but there’s no reason not to try.

I didn't like whom I was working with, and I talked to my SM and my DM about it. I wasn't allowed to transfer. I had no choice but to quit because a year of verbal abuse from a coworker caused me to become mentally ill. Then I've been marked as not rehireable for "no teamwork with partners."

But I guess I'm the only one who had something like this happen to them because Starbucks is a wonderful company and my managers were bad apples. \s\

just because worse places exist, doesn’t mean we can’t ask for better.

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