A New Orleans Starbucks fires worker leading a store’s unionization effort (via EaterNOLA)
Billie Nyx, a shift supervisor who has worked at the University-area Starbucks for a total of three years, says the coffee giant attributed the firing to Nyx’s decision to close early during Jazz Fest when the store was understaffed.
As to why it is a fireable offense, the spokesperson said Starbucks expects shift supervisors to “take seriously our commitment to creating the ‘Starbucks Experience’ for customers and partners” and that workers are aware that “failing to uphold these standards” can result in their firing. Finally, in regards to the store’s unionization effort, the spokesperson said that “Any claims of anti-union activity are categorically false.
seeking union recognition, the first Starbucks in Louisiana to do so. Ironically, a primary point behind the unionizing was hours security — issues like minimum staff schedules and clear policies around labor cutting. Essentially, protections against management cutting hours as they see fit, without a minimum guarantee of staff onsite at a given time.
“In a way I kind of expected it,” Nyx says. “I’ve been the most vocal, outspoken union organizer and have been the person airing my grievances to management directly. If another shift lead in our store had done what I did, I can’t imagine that they would have been fired for it,” says Nyx. Nyx has also been helping baristas in other stores in the city and state who are either in the process of organizing or have enough interested employees to begin the process, something that was noted in initial coverage of the store’s union push. That activity, in addition to their general outspokenness about the effort and reasoning behind unionizing, has made Nyx a target, they say.
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