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“We just had to keep our cool,” Cassie Urry said of the woman’s hateful screed, which was captured in a now-viral video.
Baristas at Peet’s Coffee have been getting advice from rival Starbucks workers in the hopes of continuing a unionizing chain reaction.
Six workers were fired after a South Carolina store manager told police one employee had assaulted her and others refused to “let her leave until they got a raise.”
As hundreds of Starbucks locations across the U.S. vote to unionize, one store’s workers were suspended over claims they tried to kidnap their manager while asking for a pay raise.
Worker-led unions are transformational, while organized labor has become transactional.
As the NLRB issues a formal complaint accusing the coffee corporation of retaliating against pro-union workers, Starbucks employees say they’re being targeted by managers.
Some workers and their families will get very sick, become hospitalized, or even die because of the coffee giant’s decision.