Bookshop Santa Cruz Employees Consider Forming Union

Good Times Santa Cruz ^ | DECEMBER 11, 2020 | JACOB PIERCE

[Dutch Boy]

Some may find out that their actual minimum wage could be 0.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The bookselling business is pretty much over because of Amazon/China.

The fact that this one is still in business is a miracle.

But they won’t be for long.

The true minimum wage is zero.

The union organizer is about to find that out when her employer closes up shop.

[Chickensoup]

After librarians, bookstore workers are the biggest leftist jerks.

[hanamizu]

I’m sorry, but talk about stupid. Bookstores, especially independent bookstores are barely surviving as it is even without the Wuhan. Organizing a union and demanding $18/hour—how do they think this is going to turn out?

[realcleanguy]

Bookshop will close within 6 months after unionization. If she isn’t taking a salary now, she will go into bankruptcy after unionization with HC and benefits.

[Larry Lucido]

This is the best time to strike!

[nickcarraway]

There were two decent-sized bookstores in Santa Cruz, until a couple years ago, when Logo went out of business.

There may be some smaller specialty, like religious bookstores also.

[Fiji Hill]

I like bookstores, I like to browse the books on display and pick up and flip through them. I don’t like to read books on the computer because reading on screens hurts my eyes and I don’t like to have to order everything online and be at the mercy of porch pirates.

Ten years ago, there were two big bookstores within walking distance of my home. Today, I’m six miles from the nearest bookstore. I have heard that Barnes & Noble may go under, and if it does, I will be 35 miles from the nearest bookstore.

[Larry Lucido]

who are making $14 an hour for the holiday season, but they are not fully trained booksellers

What does it take to sell a book, anyway?

Newman: You can't deliver mail! Jerry: Well, why not? Newman: I guess you're right. It's just walking around putting it into boxes

[TigerLikesRoosterNew]

Google will save her. She will get Universal Income soon.

[Karliner]

Hilarious the old yuppies and getting slammed by their children and grandchildren.

[SaveFerris]

My bagel has used chewing gum in it!!

[SaveFerris]

Yep

[PAR35]

The bookstore could easily afford to subsidize heathcare for their employees.

Just cut hourly wages enough to make it work.

For example for an employee working 25 hours a week, if you cut their pay by $3 / hour, you could contribute $300 a month toward their health insurance.

[Regulator]

Interesting thread.

Are you going to let them know that the Coonerty family are the ringleaders of the whole Leftist Commie movement in Santa Cruz?

Should really be interesting to see how this plays out.

Leftists never play by the rules they force everyone else to.

[Born to Conserve]

“...fully trained booksellers...”

[nickcarraway]

I had never heard of them, until someone mistook me for one of them.

[The Louiswu]

“ What does it take to sell a book, anyway?”

A great deal if your good at it. A bookstore like many businesses relies on repeat customers, a good bookseller has to know books, authors, and a great deal more, they should be able to develop a rapport with their customers and if your a good bookseller and you stick with it you’ll have regular customers who rely on you for advice on what to read next and that makes you valuable to the boss.

A good bookseller has to be able to understand trends and to Keep abreast of them so their store isn’t left with dead stock and that makes you valuable to the boss.

There is a great deal to being a good bookseller, i was a very good book seller for several years, I knew my sections backwards and forwards, I knew what questions to ask my customers, I knew how to do my research. Good book selling is an art and it’s a darn shame online book sales are killing bookstores, it’s always a pleasure to walk into a well stocked bookstore, it’s like walking into the home of a very good friend.

[Not_Who_U_Think]

Retail employees working from home. Somehow, I just don’t think that will fly.