After years of relentless union busting — costing the company nearly a quarter-billion dollars, in one estimate — Starbucks Workers United has now forced the corporation to negotiate. It may prove the most important organizing breakthrough in decades.
  • n2burns
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    10 months ago

    To me, it’s exciting because they’re showing success at one of the hardest workplaces to organizing labour. Starbucks Workers United seems to have everything going against them:

    • employees are more likely than at other workplaces to be short/medium-term, so it might be hard to convince employees to think about the long-term
    • each store have relatively few employees but they’re going up against one of the biggest corporations in the world
    • Starbucks is general seen as a “pretty good job”, so it’s got to be hard to convince employees to not just accept whatever they’re offered.

    Yet, they’re persisting!