Starbucks Amazon-go joined forces to exploit workers together at their hybrid store.

[Donkees]

NEW: These workers are taking on two of the biggest union-busters in America.

Starbucks and Amazon joined forces to exploit workers together at their hybrid store. Workers do two jobs for no extra pay.

Now workers are unionizing with @SBWorkersUnited to fight back.

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[3Hotdogs]

1. Trader Joe closed their only wine shop in Manhattan after the workers voted to go union.

[AngryOldDem]

2. I'm done with Starbucks for good.

They had a thriving store in the heart of downtown surrounded by locally-owned eateries. It was around the corner from the concert hall and I’d stop in to get a drink before the show. Place was always packed. It supposedly did brisk business during weekdays, too. This fall, it suddenly closed — like, in a week.

The reason Starbucks corporate gave was the last straw for me. Instead of being honest (or at least less duplicitous) about the real reason — unionization — it blamed an “unsafe environment” downtown due to homelessness and crime, and expressed “concern” for employees’ safety. Basically, it slandered an entire city core to cover up the real reason why this store was closing. The excuse fell flat quick, though, when the other businesses around the store said they had NO particular issues with homeless and/or crime, and the police said they had NO requests to increase check-in visits,, which the police routinely offer to downtown businesses.

There is already a perception of a violent downtown, especially since COVID and riots over George Floyd. That’s largely bullshit, but it feeds the perception of those outside of downtown, and fuck Starbucks for cynically using that as an excuse for not letting its baristas unionize.

(BTW…if I want shitty, burnt coffee, I can make it myself, no problem.)