Employees at more than 200 Starbucks stores have voted to unionize but Papa Schultz isn't hearing it. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. Who's got their money on the synchronized and caffeinated baristas? ☕️
Some of the most synchronized and caffeinated workers in America are starting to form an alliance.
On Friday, July 29, the National Labor Relations Board tallied the votes from the Starbucks store at Mockingbird Station in Dallas. Of the nine eligible employees who voted, all were in favor of unionization, making the vote a slam-dunk win for the burgeoningThe wave of Starbucks workers unionizing, which is growing across the country, started with a store in Buffalo, New York, in December 2021.
Michael Green is a law professor and the director of the Workplace Law Program at Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth. He says the pandemic changed the workplace. “If you look at during the pandemic, we had these new terms that people had never heard of like 'essential workers.' So, then we're trying to understand who are essential workers and what does that mean for those individuals who were essential workers? What were their rights and their abilities to say, 'We need more rights or safety protections'?" Green says.
He points out that organizations that were already unionized and organized were able to have their unions speak for them in a collective voice,"and places where they weren’t organized, they were just fending for themselves."“It is unconscionable that a multi-billion dollar company cannot take care of the people who generate their wealth,” Russell says.
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