Bad Takes: Starbucks treats its workers like shit, and politicos allow the company to get away with it

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Even though 301 Starbucks stores won their union elections, they've so far achieved zero union contracts to show for it thanks to the company's obstruction. Starbucks StarbucksUnion Labor UnionStrong workersrights Texas SanAntonio Houston

Organizers from Starbucks Workers United rally at Labor Plaza in downtown San Antonio last December to commemorate the one year anniversary of the first Starbucks location to unionize.If your employer is willing to break the law to stop you from starting a union, that's probably a pretty good reason to start a union.

Assaulted? How exactly does a worker exercising their legal right to unionize represent committing an assault?"You have the right to organize a union to negotiate with your employer over your terms and conditions of employment," the NLRB."This includes your right to distribute union literature, wear union buttons or T-shirts, solicit coworkers to sign union authorization cards, and discuss the union with coworkers.

Or tell Alexis Rizzo, a shift supervisor at the shop that ignited the Starbucks Workers United movement. She was terminated for being late four times in seven years. After being fired,"I have given every ounce of everything that I have to this company," Rizzo said."There's no one who has worked with me that will tell you that I do not love and care for this place and my customers. My heart is broken. You know that you're a heartless monster.

 

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