Posted on 07/30/2023 6:59:08 PM PDT by DallasBiff
(The Center Square) — Employees at a Pittsburgh-area Starbucks say they want to de-unionize amid growing workplace tension.
The request comes just one year after the Penn Center East location became one of 25 in Pennsylvania to organize under Starbucks Workers United, which is affiliated with the SEIU.
Longtime employee and Shift Supervisor Elizabeth Gulliford filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, on July 12 to hold a vote on whether to break with the union.
Gulliford supported the establishment of the union but changed her mind after she said its representation created tension at the store. Workers officially unionized in June 2022
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Unions are pushing their propaganda hard on Youtube now. Lots of sob stories and fairy tales.
Can I get a list of the union locations so that I can boycott them?
I’ve never seen a union put effort into helping workers.
I have definitely seen unions put a lot of effort into helping the union.
Gulliford supported the establishment of the union but changed her mind after she said its representation created tension at the store.
Does she put such little thought into her vote for president?
One of the things an education prepares you for is working with different types of people and different situations that can come up. And that education includes working with people. And tension is not a union issue. Also, since the store of 12 employees can’t come up with a legal reason to fire the union, then they should have no say since they were for the type of contracting the business and the unions do when they voted to bring it in.
“On July 24, Tara Yoest, the acting regional director of region 6 of the NLRB, issued an order that petitioners must “provide written cause of its legal position and argument” before the petition could move forward.”
There are a lot of people that can work at a Starbucks out there and a lot of jobs comparable in wages and bennies. So if an employee can’t handle the tension, then maybe they’re in the wrong line of work. And God help the people they would be responsible for in many jobs like law enforcement, fire protection, or military that actually have to make decision that cost lives. They need to grow up and smell the roses. It is retail, not PUBG. Life is not delivered to the basement just for you.
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> I’ve never seen a union put effort into helping workers. <
Back in the 1930s unions were critical to the well-being of workers. They insisted on safety rules and on due process. You couldn’t fire a senior millwright just because the boss’s snotty nephew wanted the job.
But by the 1960s the pendulum had swung too far the other way. Unions had morphed from being protectors of the workers to just another layer of company bureaucracy.
Side note: My grandfather worked in one of Frick’s coal mines. He had stories about how horrible the management treated workers. Safety equipment? Forget about it. Get injured on the job, and get fired the next day (that actually happened to my grandfather). Frick had no use for injured workers. So out you go.
Fast forward 70 years. I worked for a time in a union steel mill. Idiotic union regulations and demands killed that mill. It’s gone now, an empty lot.
“Employees may file a petition for decertification (RD) if they believe support for a union has diminished, after collecting signatures from at least 30% of workers in a unit. A majority of votes decides the outcome.”
I would think a shift supervisor would be considered management and ‘exempt’.
Nope.
I worked in a union grocery retail environment. Only the store managers were exempt. The department managers (grocery, deli, meat, etc) and front end supervisors were all in the same union as the regular staff.
Yep. Now unions only care about dues for their 6 figure salaries and donations to Dems and protecting people who should have been fired.
Your are pouring coffee fer christsakes.
It’s not like you graduated University/Colledge/a Trade School/Apprenticeship and EARNED a useful skill
...or joined the Armed Forces and learned something useful like supply chain management
I was in a union. Cannot see how it helped me. They did get my dues though.
Helping the worker is just the carrot unions dangle to get themselves installed. Helping themselves to the workers’ wages (dues) is what it’s all about. Union management live really well, and the money pipeline to Democrat campaign coffers insures the protection they need for their nefarious activities.
I went through that on my first ever job. Those people really are ugly goons
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