They will not pay much. It will be just a slap on the wrist.

As a small business owner, *I* *LOVE* *UNIONS!* I Love Unions because I need what EVERY small business owner needs... I need Customers; aka Consumers with Money. Union Workers organize and demand proper wages = Money. Union Workers have Money and therefore, can become my valuable Customers. Non-union Workers are too timid and/or ignorant to organize and are therefore, weaker and poorer. They choose to be poor slave and they are NOT going to become My (or Your) customers, they are a drag upon our entire economy. I LOVE UNIONS BECAUSE UNIONS CREATE MIDDLE CLASS! ... and because I want Our country to have a Big and Strong Middle Class, thanks to Unions.

Their greed overcomes basic humanity.

Obviously

It's a private company, you have no case 😂

She’s asking all the right questions, she’ll make an excellent attorney one day!

They care about stopping unionization more than they care about profit. They are willing to loose big piles of money for as long as it takes to stop unions.

@@rickb3650 unions empower workers to obtain basic rights and fair wages. That brings up the cost for those companies. Thats why they are wiling to spend so much to burst them, but its still less than those costs. But the peoples dignity, who cares?

​@@mazocco minimum wage is minimum wage my dude. It's a coffee shop not a career.

@@Handle-this-15 Eat s**t, bootlicker. Some people need to live off that coffee shop job. You realize not everyone can be a doctor or an engineer right? And it can't ALL be transient teens doing retail jobs. EVERY JOB should pay you enough to live.

But you still have rights that’s the difference

@@ariw9405 I don't follow could you elaborate please?

Anywhere that frames their work as “a family” is definitely a toxic environment.

@@ariw9405 Not if the bourgeoisie had anything to say about it, guess who fought for those rights in the first place

Dude what are you talking about? You’re an employee until you blow it and get fired. This is nobody’s fault but her own.

Yeah $10 coffees well be great

@@Handle-this-15 Make your own coffee at home if you aren't willing to pay retail price.

These people want to fight to continue working at this woke corporations . FLMAO 😂

@@robertsteck6875fighting for workers rights is commendable. So laugh it up ya goof..

@@treignsinblood pick your fights better. I fight and work to create businesses for future farmers. Oh I am in this fight deeper and like longer than you.

@@robertsteck6875 Farming is the business. What are you doing? It sounds like you are interfering. Farmers don't need additional businesses, they need less monopolies purchasing their goods while undercutting their profits.

@@-._.-KRiS-._.- no shit Sherlock

Where do u think slurping that compare sausage

Congress has tied the hands of the NLRB by taking away their right to give and enforce monetary fines. Meaning their is no incentive to even listen to them. It is time to start voting for those who will back unions and calling/emailing those currently in congress to the point of harassment to enact change.

The government supports these millionaire companies. We must end their dictatorship.

The state serves the interest of capital.

Well, considering what they did to rail workers...

Why'd your state give Idaho Starbucks and not Indies? Never heard of Indies. We have Moxie and Flying M but I think Flying M is the only local bean joint we have.

I know...while visiting Seattle I noticed....very few people go to Starbucks. So refreshing. We need that everyone. This man is a menace to human beings everywhere.

Exactly! Neither do I, I donate to my local group of Starbucks workers that are trying to unionize. The workers may not be able to talk about unions but when I’m in a Target that has a Starbucks I always start up a conversation right in front about the how Starbucks is a Union busting greedy corporation.

@@ariw9405 that's great!!!!!! The big corporations will spend alot of money to try to stop the unions. They can't stay in business without workers to work in them.keep fighting and stick together. GO UNIONS!!!!!!!!

@@dankdank161 people like you were what the robber barons of the early 20th century were depending on. People like you are what the oligarchy are depending on today. That's what Hitler dependedon in 2nd world War. They depend on cowards to scared to fight for what's right. I tried to ignore you. Now I'm just saying if the people stay together they absolutely will win. ITS THE AMERICAN WAY.

Agreed

They have to smack those people hard to terrify the rest. It's not petty.

@@grmpEqweer It's definitely *petty* when the powerful attack the helpless.

@@danusdragonfly6640 they know that all of us together are not helpless, but actually hold more power than them, so they have to suppress and divide us

@@dustinger First it was royals, then it was robber barons, now it is corporations. Time to put an end to it for once and for all!

@@danusdragonfly6640 I think he was pointing to that it’s part of a bigger picture strategy to union bust. Petty is when the bigger power won’t even gain anything from the extra insult to injury.

Not all of us 40+, but overall agree

I just turned 40, and am a revolutionary communist and member of CPUSA, PSL, and am slowly organizing my local community. While it's true that there's many an old reactionary, we mustn't lose sight that this is a class struggle, and there's plenty of older comrades too

43 year old socialist comrade. I am disgusted by my peers .

@@kckush5046 Yes, nearly all of us. We couldn’t escape it, we could only question it and resist it.

50 years old this year, and I'm a Socialist. But for too much of my life I was duped by Reaganomics and its conservative successors. I've found that much of the political divide in my generation boils down to those Gen Xers who managed to get a house and those of us who are still paying monthly rent for an apartment. We have to thwart wealthy class exploitation-worker solidarity!

I have worked with 2 American companies here in SE Asia and with the influx of American companies since the late 70's, the local government has slowly moved from European mindset to American ones. Heck, even Tesla's EMusk is now here trying to "improve the lives of our people". Oh sh!t!!

" We might not be as rich as Americans on average, but we don't go bankrupt due to medical bills" Exactly. The problem with averages is that they make it easy to hide the details. Most Europeans are far better off than most Americans. Rich Americans are quite a bit richer than rich Europeans, and that's what skews the average.

Americans aren't rich. 82% of households have an income over $25,000. That's two people earning $6.01+/hr each. 62% of households have an income over $50,000. That's two people earning $12.02+/hr each. 34% of households have an income over $100,000. That's two people earning $24.04+/hr each. 1% of households have an income over $500,000. That's two people earning $120+/hr each. As you can see, the majority of Americans are earning between $12 to $24/hr. 50% of Americans cannot cover a $400 emergency without going into some kind of debt, like a credit card or a payday loan. There isn't a single one bedroom apartment that anyone across America can rent while earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr. Remember, not only do Americans have to pay taxes they also have to pay monthly health insurance fees. There are separate fees for vision and dental insurance, as well. Car insurance, home/rental insurance, property taxes, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, inheritance tax, plus all the stupid fees: atm fees, parking fees, event parking fees, birthing fees, burial fees, late fees, interest fees, fees to get a birth certificate after child is born, etc. Our paychecks may look "bigger" compared to European salaries but thousands get taken out in taxes/fees for the average worker and what we take home gets spent on additional taxes/fees plus housing, food, utilities and retirement savings/investments (legalized gambling). We have several 2 bedroom homes in my city in Idaho going for $600,000. I was looking at properties in cities around London and the most expensive I found were no more than 340,000 pounds. And it came with a circular glass sunroom and a fully fleshed out garden. You guys don't do square footage so I couldn't tell how big it was but it had THREE bedrooms! That sunroom was gorgeous. We don't have sunrooms like that in the States. The best we have are rectangular porches with screens stapled onto the posts and a covered roof so the only light that gets in is from the screens. Also, you guys don't have to refrigerate your eggs. I could save so much fridge space if I didn't have to refrigerate eggs.

@@etee7114 Well, Elon is from South Africa. He later got his Canadian and American residency. He's an authoritarian capitalist, for sure.

@@-._.-KRiS-._.- I meant on average. On average the US are the richtest country in the history of the planet. Of course, the US also have the highest number of multi-billionaires in the world, which usually points to an extreme inequality in income.

Most middle management could be done away with completely and absolutely nothing would change for the better or worse within companies, so, yeah, sure. Makes more sense than ignoring the needs of the people on the front lines who actually know how the job works and what it needs for improvements.

May they be merciful as the guillotines let them be

Same here. It's funny, though, there are many people that still don't seem to realize that Gen Z exists and continue to shite on us Millennials for all of society's ills. For 20+ years our generation has been blamed and hammered for anything and everything; now that we are middle aged it's not 'cute' anymore, it's getting old. I aim to stand up for any Gen Z because I don't want to see them get the same treatment as us. And, I have to say, it must be really weird living a life that constantly shites on your children, grandchildren and, now, great grandchildren (shoutout to Gen Alpha, who shouldn't be on KZfaq because you're not old enough yet).

I hope many more locations unionize

Unfortunately, thousands of other shareholders of Starbucks do not share that view of yours, instead having a "show me the money" mindset that reinforces this corporate anti-union stance.

Not at the moment but companies are working on building housing for their employees so they can entrap them further. Can't quit the job because then you'd lose your place to live. I believe Costco is one of the companies considering this. I'm sure Amazon and Walmart are not far behind.

As we have seen with Amazon allowing workers to die during a tornado lest they stop working to get to safety.

Source?

@@ariw9405 history books and google

As Mr.Rogers mother once told him “look for the people helping.” ❤

Not if they are emancipated. Even if not, no cop is going to arrest an adult for kicking out an almost 18-year-old. My mom kicked me out at 17 so I moved in with my dad for a year. My mom was upset with me because I'd stay late at work. She didn't like me coming home at 2 in the morning. I would always try to stay as late as I could because I didn't want to be at home with her. Sounds like this girl might not have had her father close by or his support. I know it's illegal to be homeless, but if she plays it safe, she won't be bothered by the cops much. As a now 40-year-old woman, if I didn't have a kid, I'd live in my car. These $1600 rents for one bedroom apartments are insane.

He has no sympathy for equality and justice under the law, got it DB.

What local coffee shops? Starbucks, Dutch Bros, and The Human Bean drove them all out of business.

Because they're counting on getting away with it. When you're a giant corporation, having to pay a fine that is a tiny fraction of your annual revenue is just "the cost of doing business". Corporates do shit like this all the time. If the cost of complying with the law is greater than the fine for breaking it, they'll break it.

You should see what the landlords are asking for now. It's like the Wild West out there for renters.

That would be communism but, yes, the public ownership of the means of production would be good, too.

You prefer child labor and 60+ hour work weeks? Unions abolished child labor and gave us the 40-hour work week.

@@-._.-KRiS-._.- wow you suppose a lot

@@-._.-KRiS-._.- Unions were needed at one point now they are a problem they only consume .