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After Starbucks Fires Union Leader, Workers Strike for His Reinstatement
Starbucks Workers United strike outside the Delaware Avenue store, in Tonawanda, New York, on August 8, 2022.
DEREK SEIDMAN
https://truthout.org/articles/after-starbucks-fires-union-leader-workers-strike-for-his-reinstatement/
BY Derek Seidman, Truthout PUBLISHED August 17, 2022
For more than a dozen years, Sam Amato served his customers and chatted with them every day. He saw their kids grow up. Some of his best friends are Starbucks customers and coworkers.
Remembering them, he chokes up.
“Just being in the store every day, and seeing these people, and talking to them, and making their drinks,” he says. “It was really an honor to do that.”
According to his fellow workers, Amato was everything that Starbucks could ask for in an employee. He was a veteran shift supervisor who knew the company’s rules and standards inside and out. He admired the company’s mission and values. He was a caring and supportive coworker who was great with customers.
FULL story at link at top.