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Starbucks' unionized workers plan walkout on "Red Cup Day" this week (www.cbsnews.com)
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Thousands of unionized Starbucks workers will walk off their jobs on Thursday, with the one-day work stoppages coming to protest the company's stance with shops that voted to organize, according to Starbucks Workers United.

The labor action is timed to for Starbucks' Red Cup Day, an annual event in which the coffee giant hands out holiday-themed reusable cups. Starbucks has refused to negotiate in good faith over staffing and other issues that are particularly acute during promotions, according to the union.

"Starbucks is creating unnecessarily stressful working conditions by scheduling promotion after promotion without increasing staffing," Neha Cremin, a Starbucks worker in Oklahoma City, said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch. "Starbucks has made it clear that they won't listen to workers, so we're advocating for ourselves by going on strike."

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[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it was so cruel working a food service job where every so often they'd do cutesy little promo days or sales days (over dumb completely made up little folk holidays or ad campaign traditions like this); they cook up this sort of faux-positive team-spirit attitude about 'getting thru it' or whatever, like a band of soldiers. and at the end of the day, you're worn out, stressed, you got paid the same shitty wage you got paid yesterday, the company doubled their profits, which all go off to some dickhead in ohio who didn't do shit, but looked forward to today like christmas

and i love how after 2020 now it's just par for the course for restaurants to always be understaffed because it's cheaper. this stupid fucking country is falling apart.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago

Businesses used to give their workers Christmas bonuses for doing things like that.

[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

and i love how after 2020 now it’s just par for the course for restaurants to always be understaffed because it’s cheaper.

But don't forget the managers and business owners complaining "people don't want to work" and blaming Democrats, unions, unemployment benefits, and "kids these days"

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[-] LateToTheCuttingEdge@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago

One of the first shops to unionize was on Main Street in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan. Starbucks recently announced a number of closings and surprisingly enough, that shop is one of the stores being closed. Corporate swears the closing has nothing to do with the union.

Apparently a shop operating successfully for over 20 years in a high visibility, heavy foot trafficked area of a college town is just a recipe for failure.

[-] CoderKat@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's so frustrating that such blatant union busting goes unpunished. If I had any power, I'd see execs in charge of decisions like that go to jail. Not a fine -- jail. White collar crime is one area where I think prison actually can be a decent deterrent (if there's enough enforcement that people don't think they'd go uncaught). It's a crime where the perpetrator usually is knowledgeable, not in the heat of the moment, and has plenty of time to recognize what they're doing.

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[-] interceder270@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Wow, Unions work.

I guess this is why the ruling class and useful idiots are so against them.

[-] art@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

It's November 16th. That's the Red Cup Day. I assume CBS didn't add the date to the article because they don't give a shit if customers accidentally cross a picket line.

[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

It says "Thursday," which, assuming the the article was written and posted this week, is a perfectly adequate way of conveying the date of the protest. Not that I think CBS has workers' interests in mind or anything, but we may as well be accurate with our condemnation of corporations.

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[-] Tygr@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I wish 50% of America would go to the event to cause an absolute overwhelm, crush and chaos that would bring fines to each location.

Each customer should take 5 minutes or longer to order. Vehicles should break down in the drive throughs.

Since a 100% boycott won’t happen, this is the only way.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Just don't order. Take up space inside but never order. Don't give them money.

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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I plan to go in, use the bathroom, and not buy anything. It is like slacktivism but I get peace and quite while on the can.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Starbucks bathroom protesting is a hard pass for me. Those things get aggressively shit in by average folks who’ve come to the intersection of lactose intolerance and caffeine.

They’re also a big hit for homeless junkies who need a quiet place to shoot up, or simply want to take a 5 pound opiate-constipation dump.

[-] lm7@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

So, you're saying Starbucks restrooms are a good thing, providing what are effectively public accommodations when the city won't.

[-] StorminNorman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Please, I've gone to the toilets on day 5 of a 5 day music festival. Nothing toilet wise scares me anymore.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago

They play music in there, and it's Christmas time. You're gonna be poopin' to that song.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Lol, maybe I'll do that too. I haven't gone to Starbucks in over a year, but there's one on the way to my kid's school, so I might just do it.

They can pay for my flush.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Any customer crossing the picket line -- or even getting a red cup from a not-yet-unionized store, for that matter -- is a class traitor.

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile I'll be over here continuing to never buy overpriced retail caffeinated sugar drink from a godawful megacorporation, like I've done since 1987.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Was that after your friends died in an Orange Mocha Frapachino fueled freak accident gasoline fight.

[-] havokdj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Is this a school for ants?

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[-] gamingdexter@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Some of the stores by us today have their keyhole glued so no one can get in

[-] S_204@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

There's no way there's no cameras.... the cops work for Corps, those hero's are getting the book thrown at them.

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