Starbucks violated federal labor law when it increased wages and offered new perks and benefits only to non-union employees, a National Labor Relations Board judge found Thursday.
It is funny that by trying to punish the union members, they proved that unions work. The other employees would never have gotten pay raised and perks without the union.
So the person who made the decision goes to jail, right? Right?
Lol, no. They get a fine that’s 1% of the profits they made breaking the law.
1%?! Whhhoaaa there, we don’t want to cause any economical damage that might cause job loss, do we? Do you want to be the one to break it to the deputy minister of job security? Let’s go for a more reasonable 0.001%
Starbuck’s little clean progressive image has been totally ruined for me by the way they fight so hard against these unions. I won’t support them in any way
Yeah. I keep seeing this and thinking,
“That’s a bold play for a luxury brand whose leading competition comes in affordable bulk tins for home use.”
Here’s my soap box:
I expect the gasoline industry to act like assholes all the way to their solar-powered graves.
But seeing overpriced coffee try it boggles my mind.
The CEOs of Starbucks, movies, streaming television and music production have clearly alienated that one friend they could trust to tell them they’re being idiots.
In case any of the CEOs are reading along, I’m going to be that final friend to you now:
“The demand in your industry is something called highly elastic. That means that people given any motivation whatsoever to boycott your product will take decades, at minimum, to return to using it, if they ever do. It’s easier and more economical to just pay your workers a fair living wage. If you honestly can’t afford to pay a fair living wage, that is okay, you may stop now, no one actually needs your product.”
And for any really dumb CEOs reading along: “Home coffee grinders are pretty great.”
People don’t go to Starbucks for coffee. People go to Starbucks for their stupidly complicated coffee flavored morning milkshake. Those are hard to replace at home.
Mmm… 'beetus
Any chance a judge can force Starbucks to negotiate with the union in good faith sometime before the heat death of the universe? Maybe? Please!
Fuck Starbucks. I kicked them to the curb about 2 years ago.
