Starbucks workers' DEMANDS

Starbucks baristas have voted to unionize at 288 of the company's 9,000 corporate-owned stores over the last 16 months, making for one of the most high-profile labor battles in decades, despite a full-blown effort by the company to stamp out the campaign. #shorts #starbucks #unions

[Nick-kzdg]

Boomers: “Young people just don’t want to work.”
Millennials & Gen Z: “We are literally begging for a schedule with guaranteed hours.”

[wrathofainz]

Starbucks will literally just close stores to avoid treating their workers decently.


Edit for clarity: this comment does not connect to this (exaggerated parody) video so much as it does real events.

[minxymoo]

I had a job interview at Starbucks and she straight up told me they don't hire full time, only salaried managers get full time hours.

[bm]

They make the most expensive coffee in the world. They can afford paying their workers.

[mghrabbits]

Im a Starbucks barista, they denied my medical coverage this year because I was short by 12 minutes of the needed hours.
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Edit: look I don’t care if you’re sympathetic or not, I only came on here to share my experience. For those saying just quit, this is not my only job, I have it specifically for the benefits they give for part time people and schooling. I am under 25 but my parents kicked me off their insurance because they don’t have the money for it. The reason I was short was not because I hadn’t been trying to clock in early or out late but because my manager at the time was not scheduling me more than three days a week even when she promised me she would schedule me more.

[rcutler]

How it really works
Starbucks workers: "We want to unionize"
Starbucks: "Every single person here is now fired. We will rehire others with the same terms"
Workers: "Shouldn't that be illegal?"
Government: 🤷

[shaunflowers-cpws]

The fact that people are defending a 20 billion corporate😭

[Gladvillainy-]

I worked at McDonald’s for 2 years (I’m a high school student) and my general manager was scheduling me for 20-24 hours a week, then he quit and a new GM came and she cut the hours down to 3 and despite my begging she never boosted them once. I have a new job now but it’s gross that random people can just destroy your livelyhood like that for no reason

[Lydia]

My local Starbucks has unionized and Starbucks refuses to negotiate. Which is illegal. It's been an ongoing battle for over a year now

[harrumphy]

This was exactly my experience in the late '90s. Nothing has changed except more "benefits" they disqualified me from with insufficient hours.

[qseven]

With how much they're charging for their drinks you'd think they'd have enough money to pay them properly

[andiward]

Negotiation 101: Ask for more than you expect so both parties give up something they want but save face.

[V_The_Machine]

The fact that unions have to exist to make sure that companies in the US treat their employees like humans is sad.

Edit: what have I created…

[InsainCat]

I was told that my starting wage would be 15$ an hour. They paid me less than 13$ and had the audacity to call me out when I was having medical issues.

[oddball]

Remember the president who signed minimum wage into existence, Franklin D Roosevelt said
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." If we're the greatest country on earth, then all of our jobs should pay a living wage. Today's calculated living wage is about 23 dollars an hour. If you go to Starbucks, then you are by definition voting with your dollar that a barista is a job that's needs to be done. You cannot say that a job needs to be done and then tell the person they shouldn't be able to live off that job. If you don't like batista's asking for a living wage, then never use a barista again.

[spartanellsworth]

What's hilarious is I have a friend that quit Starbucks because they were hired on as a part-time and the Starbucks ended up making them work almost full time, while they are raising their first child.

[j_anna]

i work at starbucks in australia. i'm employed part time which means i should have consistent hours every week, but i'm treated like a casual with different shifts every week. in australia if you're employed as a casual you get casual loading on top of your pay because of the unreliability of work. but i don't get that extra pay because i'm employed "part-time" working less than 15 hours a week 🙃

[jpachtrp]

People arguing that workers SHOULDN'T get hours, benefits, and decent pay while the Corpos make more and more is crazy. Some of y'all are real corporate boot lickers 😅

[orellaminx]

Imagine not wanting to pay a person 3 cups of coffee for serving 40+ in an hour.

[havan]

Starbucks CEO made $20.4 Million in 2021 Still think they can't afford to pay more?