Posted on 12/25/2024 1:51:41 AM PST by Libloather
The union representing Starbucks baristas said on Tuesday that a strike against the java giant has expanded to more than 300 locations — with about 10,000 coffeehouse workers walking off the job on Christmas Eve.
Baristas in more than 50 cities including New York, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago have walked the picket line since Friday demanding better wages and work conditions.
The extent to which the work stoppage has damaged Starbucks business is unclear.
According to company filings cited by the New York Times, a typical company-owned Starbucks location in the United States generates anywhere between $4,000 and $8,000 during a normal business day.
That number is even higher during the holiday season, according to the Times.
The strike is scheduled to end on Tuesday and workers are due to report to their stores on Christmas Day.
Earlier this week, Starbucks said the disruptions from the strike had no significant impact on its operations because only a small handful of US stores have been impacted.
The Post has sought comment from Starbucks and the union.
Starbucks Workers United, the union which launched the strike, represents employees at more than 500 company-owned stores — which is around 5% of the total number of stores being operated in the US.
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McDonald’s, Starbucks, foodservice jobs in general are not careers. They are starter jobs.
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That is not true. It is good honest work for those that do it. A starter job for some. But others top their ability there. And they need to be respected.
All work is honorable.
I worked with 2 professors, one, Vassar Professor Don Foster, with literary analysis, the second, Emeritus Professor McDonald Jackson of U of Auckland, with statistical analysis. We were attempting to discover whether Major Henry Livingston, Jr was the actual author of Night Before Christmas, and not Clement Moore.
Mac’s book is written in academic speak. So I had a chapter in my big book on Henry that tried to translate Mac into people speak.
https://www.henrylivingston.com
is my Henry Livingston site. My 3 books and Mac’s book are shown at the top. The summary of the statistical research is at:
https://www.henrylivingston.com/data
I was the chair of computer programming languages once, long ago and far away, and at IBM Research for 10 years. My girlfriend was president of computational linguistics. I pulled her and my husband, an IBM Researcher for 20 years, into the project and my friend got us into the phoneme research, which hadn’t been used before by Mac. Husband wrote the programs and I designed the data layouts to let Mac be able to instantly recognize how his ideas for discrimination were working. His eventual discriminator showed that the Christmas poet and Henry statistically used the same favored sounds. Moore was way different.
This was just a scientific proof of what I’d already noted. When I was sucking Lyn into the work, I did it by reading to her aloud from both Moore and Henry.
Hear Clement Moore on YouTube - Invitation to a Ball
https://youtu.be/5EbJ4gADHBs
Hear Henry Livingston on YouTube - To My Dear Brother Beekman
https://youtu.be/hB-uHg9QTc8
As I was reading Moore, I stopped to notice that I was having trouble SAYING Moore’s poetry, where Henry’s had flowed. Lyn explained that it had to do with how far my tongue was moving in my mouth between words. I ran home to write Mac and he knew about phonemes but hadn’t done anything with them since his college days and thought the work too much for us. Lyn and I are out of the military/industrial world so we just live on detailed work like that. So he agreed to try it. And he was thrilled by the result.
It was an incredibly exciting time. Truly wish Mac could speak people-talk.
Good, shut Starbucks down.
I thought they already did so.
I know, I prefer Folger’s myself.
What are you? A socialist? It needs to be made clear that certain jobs won’t make you rich, or even comfortable. If that’s what you want you need to move to a better job because the underlying product won’t support the cost of you achieving that.
You’re right, of course, about DIY coffee for pennies a cup. But I once asked a “barista” at my local Starbucks what percentage of customers order plain ol’ coffee. Her answer? Ten percent! The other 90% are getting those ridiculous sugar- and syrup- and whipped-cream-filled concoctions! Can’t really make those at home.
All work is honorable.
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ALL????? Lots of people incarcerated for work they did.
As long as the homeless can still use the can.
“Starbucks is about the experience, not just the coffee.”
Barnes and Nobles said that about their book stores.
Lol.
The Starbucks business model is based on large numbers of locations in urban areas—so one of their main attributes is convenience.
With less folks commuting to work and living in downtown areas their business model has issues imho.
And no one noticed.
“Good, shut Starbucks down.”
I love the law of unintended consequences. Now people will have a few bucks in their pocket to buy something else.
Management, law enforcement, nor city hall do anything about it.
When these baristas return I hope they are greeted by “Now Hiring non-union Workers” signs.
“I’ve never had a Starbucks coffee or anything else there”
You’ve missed nothing, nothing at all. I had a few meetings at a Starbucks once. First time I got coffee and it was just horrible along with being overpriced. Second time I tried a different coffee, same results. Third time a bottle of water and a pastry. The pastry was just dry and sickening. The bottle of water must have had gold in it as it was so expensive.
I can’t see people making fools of themselves rushing to Starbucks to get burnt coyote piss and risk being late for work. What ever happened to the automatic coffee maker and thermos?
I think you are missing Chickensoup’s point. There are people that don’t have the cognitive ability to progress beyond menial manual labor jobs. I frequently go to a grocery store that has had the same baggers for many years. That is all they can do. The company is providing them reasonable pay with health benefits.
That may have been true 30 years ago, but not so much today. There also seems to be a significant portion of the population that tries to make a living as Uber or DoorDash drivers.
Christmas is ruined.
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