The First Starbucks Location That Voted to Unionize Is Being Shut Down

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/starbucks-unionized-store-ithaca-closed ^ | June 06, 2022 | Mike Pomranz

[cableguymn]

Ray Charles saw that coming

[Craftmore]

unions are a thing of the past,bust em all

[2banana]

Woked CEOs don’t run their businesses by woked rules.

[5th MEB]

Their coffee is CRAP, if they ever figure out how to make decent coffee maybe then I could TRY to dredge up some sympathy.

[Ge0ffrey]

Who’s going to manage it? The government?

[null and void]

Soooooo, (gender neutral pronoun) Barista (Baristo? Baristx?), how is that new higher than the market will bear wage workin’ out for ya?

[Do_Tar]

Mmmm. Greasy coffee.

[Angelino97]

unions are a thing of the past,bust em all

That's the conservative view. The populist view is more sympathetic to unions.

I used to be anti-union back in the 1980s, in my conservative youth. But today I'm more populist. I still dislike government employee unions. But private sector unions aren't wholly bad, just as businesses aren't wholly good.

[ConservativeInPA]

This is clearly retaliation for our small grasps at dignity as workers, but our strike showed them what power we have."

How about getting some skills and a real job.

[SamAdams76]

So funny. The founders of Starbucks talk a good game and play up the "wokeness" factor to bring the hippie crowd into their stores to happily pay for their overpriced coffee drinks, usually with daddy's money.

But they are actually hard-nosed businessmen. Or they would not be billionaires today.

Ben & Jerry play the same game.

[Vermont Lt]

Unions are fine. But if the owners want to shut down, that’s up to the owners.

It’s fun to watch the whiners whine.

[jimmygrace]

Too many baristas chasing too few $6 Frappuccinos these days.

[Persevero]

I am ok with collective bargaining and organizing. I am not ok with keeping qualified people out of a work force or using union money or manpower to subsidize the democrat party

[Bernard]

The real minimum wage is zero.

But if Starbucks is going to close every location with a customer base loaded of smarmy liberals just because the workers unionize, that could be very damaging to their current population of locations and customer base.

[srmanuel]

I agree, Amazon is a prime example, it wouldn’t hurt my feelings if unions spread throughout Amazon and applied some pressure on their management.

Like you said, both sides are neither universally bad or universally good, we some balance in some of these really powerful companies.

[Seruzawa]

Those idiots are going to line up for their lattes no matter what Starbucks does.

[hanamizu]

“...our strike showed them what power we have.”

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And the closure shows you what power they have.

[dayglored]

Ithaca City of Evil PING

[Vigilanteman]

Precisely right. The plant I work in today is unionized, but reasonable. They ensure that their people get due process before they are discharged.

My previous place of employment was a poster brat for why unions are necessary. They manufactured a lame excuse to fire me just so they could steal my accumulated vacation and sick leave.