They called out the CEO directly, saying: “ This is a message for Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol…  We deserve better. Starbucks promised to finalize contracts with our union in 2024. You failed to do so because you refuse to address our concerns about staffing and take home pay now.”



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by Conscious-Quarter423

10 comments

  1. A barista isn’t worth much, sorry. The problem is the company is huge. Just stop working there or shop somewhere else. Problem solved. Too many lemmings supporting their mediocre product.

  2. Time to start blasting. Decorum is dead. Eat the rich!

  3. Huh one is a 50 year old with loads of management experience in a role where experience compounds and the other is an average of 24 years old who makes drinks. Wonder why there’s a pay gap

  5. Fuck Starbucks! Baristas and those in the service industry deserve better!

  7. $19 an hour…? Making coffee…? I’m gonna get a lot of hate for this… but that feels like a solid wage… I also have heard they have good benefits, tuition reimbursement programs, and career advancement opportunities. I am very pro union so I would love to hear what they are unhappy with. 

  8. Yeah the ones at the store is important, but they won’t reverse a 50b decline of Starbucks brand. That’s all corporate policy. But corporate needs them to inact their new premium direction.

    The board needs a specific person to stave off that decline and reenter growth, they think Niccol who doubled chipotle who had similar decline issues can do it for Starbucks. 100M to prevent 50B valuation drop and potentially make it worth >1X more? It’s not that bad of a bet.

    If they spent this 100M and gave it all to each store, it would only be about 2500/store/year . If the store gives it to their employees they may only see a few dollars extra per paycheck.

  9. The moment I found out Brian Nichol was the new CEO for Starbucks I knew it was not going to go well for the employees. The only reason people think Brian helped “save” Chipotle was because of all the “record sales.” The reason there were record sales was because of all the downgrades. The chicken was no longer marinated in house; the steak began arriving with a lot of fat; supply chain issues with quality; employee labor cut despite growing sales; automated scheduling that severely misunderstood the needs of the business; time expectation demands for online ordering couldn’t be met with short-staffed restaurants. Short-staffed restaurants meant constant hiring but having no trainer or no time to train, causing a ripple effect of unmotivated and overworked crew members that barely knew what they were doing. Which rippled into dangerous food safety practices, leading to poor food quality which in turn caused sick and unhappy customers to take it out on teenage workers and their exhausted managers that are just trying their best under the pressure from the company. I left the company after moving up into corporate and seeing first hand how terrible it was for most stores around the country. In one of my positions I was traveling all over the US opening new restaurants, meanwhile the nearest 5 stores were severely understaffed, unsanitary, and barely hanging on. The general managers are salary working 60+ hours a week, struggling to mean customer demand with only 2-3 other team members. My last position with the company required me to continually audit and demand unreachable goals from my understaffed restaurants. It was soul crushing and it wasn’t worth the pay. Many people in corporate left around the same time I did. Brian Nichol fucked up Chipotle then jumped ship to now fuck up Starbucks.

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