Starbucks workers strike ahead of Christmas rush

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-20 14:13:31 | Updated at 2024-12-28 11:35:02 1 week ago

Starbucks workers strike ahead of Christmas rush
New York Post ^ | December 20, 2024

Posted on 12/20/2024 5:36:55 AM PST by Cecily

Workers at Starbucks stores plan to go on a five-day strike starting Friday to protest lack of progress in contract negotiations with the company.

The strikes are scheduled to begin in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle and could spread to hundreds of stores across the country by Christmas Eve.

Starbucks Workers United, the union that has organized workers at 535 company-owned US stores since 2021, said Starbucks has failed to honor a commitment made in February to reach a labor agreement this year.

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There are lots of other places to buy overpriced coffee. Starbucks is not exactly a business or service vital to the American economy.

1 posted on 12/20/2024 5:36:55 AM PST by Cecily

To: Cecily

This seems like natural selection. As I always say, “We have coffee at home.”

2 posted on 12/20/2024 5:38:55 AM PST by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)

To: Tax-chick

As I say, if you don’t like your job, get another one.

3 posted on 12/20/2024 5:40:57 AM PST by yldstrk

To: Tax-chick

Stupid is finally starting to hurt. Both starbucks workers and customers.

OmG Becky! Where am I going to find my morning coffee? My sugar free, extra shot, mocha, soy frappe'?.

4 posted on 12/20/2024 5:43:11 AM PST by Ikeon ( Why don't they, do what they say? Say what they mean? One thing leads to another. )

To: Cecily

Go ahead! Please do! I avoid their rotgut coffee like the p[lague. I make my own latte each morning, but if I’m traveling I always look for local espresso stands or cafes first. If I have to go corporate it’s something like Dutch Brothers or Tim Hortons.

5 posted on 12/20/2024 5:44:11 AM PST by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)

To: Tax-chick

My K cup machine is nonunion and works for little.

6 posted on 12/20/2024 5:44:46 AM PST by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold. )

To: Cecily

I can make my one cup of coffee for about .75cents I see no reason to spend 3-5 dollars for a cup, strike away idiots.

7 posted on 12/20/2024 5:51:38 AM PST by The Louiswu (Merry Christmas Everyone!!!)

To: The Louiswu

I, too, never darken Starbucks’ woke door.

8 posted on 12/20/2024 5:53:48 AM PST by yldstrk

To: Cecily

Personally I’ve never understood how non skilled labor can strike.

9 posted on 12/20/2024 5:55:38 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)

To: Tax-chick

10 posted on 12/20/2024 5:57:10 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)

To: yldstrk

Well not when unions were first forming and people were treated like animals.

But that’s gone about 70 years at least and hasn’t been terrible for probably 90

So yeah, in this day and age in the USA...just go somewhere else.

11 posted on 12/20/2024 5:57:47 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)

To: Cecily

Why is there a Christmas rush at Starbucks?

12 posted on 12/20/2024 5:58:14 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)

To: yldstrk

I would occasionally go into a Starbucks to get a Pike Roast black. Not my favorite coffee but would do in a pinch. But in my business suit and crew-cut, I was always a fish out of water.

Now that I have long hair and a beard, I don't go into them anymore as the clientele and workers now assume I'm one of them!

13 posted on 12/20/2024 6:00:00 AM PST by SamAdams76

To: dp0622

There was always the option to work for yourself. People didn’t have to have a “job” where they showed up at the same place every day. If you like the conditions, fine. If not, go elsewhere. You are not a slave.

14 posted on 12/20/2024 6:01:06 AM PST by yldstrk

To: Cecily

Thanks for posting. Interesting. Sipping my Warpath coffee this am. I do like Starbucks dark roast, Tim Horton & Dunkin’ Donuts. K cups are a great invention. It’s been many years since I bought a cup of coffee from a barista.

15 posted on 12/20/2024 6:02:19 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)

To: Ikeon; FRiends

White girls are going to riot! Did they even think of THAT? ;)

16 posted on 12/20/2024 6:03:27 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)

To: Cecily

This seems very tone deaf! They believe themselves to be indisputable or a critical function? I think it won’t end well.

17 posted on 12/20/2024 6:04:12 AM PST by 556x45

To: Cecily

I hate Starbucks coffee and their pretentious arrogance, but I also take perverse pleasure in walking through picket lines. Hopefully the strikes grow to my neck of the woods.

18 posted on 12/20/2024 6:04:42 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)

To: Cecily

Hey Bro...Bought you a coffee pot for Christmas and $50 to buy coffee of your choice. About 25 cents a cup...

Hey Sis...bought you a coffee pot for Christmas...etc etc....

19 posted on 12/20/2024 6:06:31 AM PST by Sacajaweau

To: Cecily

Another Biden success story: “Biden Is the Most Pro-Labor President Since F.D.R.”

Hey, let’s have a strike right before Christmas like Amazon and Starbucks and show people just what a great President Biden has been for unions.

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