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Posted on 11/20/2025 6:23:14 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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* Starbucks Workers United says it is adding more than two dozen new cities and stores to its strike count, brining the total to 95 stores in 65 cities.
* The union, which began organizing in 2021, has threatened the “largest, longest” strike in company history. It began on Nov. 13 and is open-ended.
* Starbucks and the union entered into mediation in February, and hundreds of barista delegates voted down the economic package Starbucks proposed in April.
* Both sides have pointed blame at the other for failure to reach a bargaining agreement, and say they’re ready to negotiate.
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As of September 22, 2025, there are 17,286 Starbucks locations in the United States. Just sayin...
I haven’t been to a Starbucks in years. Not an essential industry. Many alternatives available. Cheaper (and better) at home.
In short, let them strike.
Is making coffee really a skilled trade?
I’ve never understood how unskilled labor can successfully unionize but I guess they can.
Personally speaking, I don’t see the attraction to starbucks but they seem successful so I guess they got something going for them.
It sounds like closing one hundred stores would be no big deal.
Problem solved.
For under $3 Panera bread provides free coffee refills.
My palate isn’t discerning enough to tell the difference.
As if coffee prices haven’t already soared and Starbucks is closing locations as fewer people make now expensive coffee runs (including my family).
“Starbucks is closing dozens of locations in California
...An unofficial list of closures circulating online includes nearly 200 locations, with the Los Angeles area seeing the most significant impact.”
They’re going to unionize themselves right out of a job. They can ask the fast food workers in California - after idiot Newsom signed a bill mandating $20/hour for fast food workers:
“California has experienced significant job losses in the fast-food industry following the implementation of the $20 per hour minimum wage law...the state’s fast-food sector lost over 23,100 jobs in the year after the law was implemented.”
They’re only hurting themselves.
Those jobs are a dime-a-dozen. They may not wish to come back. Plenty of other jobs out there-it’s essentially retail. The company may feel like universities with declining enrollment.
If you think Starbucks is expensive now wait until the strikers win.
INFLATION oh high
With a Nespresso or like machine, who needs Starbucks. I make my own pods and far better coffee than I have ever received from a Starbucks.
Most of their employees are part-time. The only people that really stick around (for the most part) are the managers. These “unionizers” are going to kill the business.
My son worked for them part time for the better part of a decade and said that the workers should have more “power” in the company. So I asked him “What about the guy that started the business...worked his butt off to get it in the place that it is now? He deserves to be paid what he’s making because he took all the risk”. He did not know how to answer that question.
I wonder if there is any other places that one could get a cup of coffee during the Holidays?
These union leaders are morons. Overpriced coffee is one of the most discretionary items a person can buy on a regular basis. Telling their customers to honor the picket lines will only chase them to alternative coffee spots — most of them permanently.
I usually drink coffee at home. If on the road, 7-11 coffee will suffice.
You make your own pods?...hhhmmm.
They got upset when the company wanted them to cover their tattoos and limit facial piercings. Really!
Like Dims, using peoples suffering as “leverage” to get what they want.
Where do these young people get these ideas? Is it public school? Early upbringing? At a family gathering recently, I heard a five year old boy complain that his 'vote' wasn't being counted.
“My palate isn’t discerning enough to tell the difference.”
Nor is mine.
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