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It’s hard to pick sides here. On the one hand, the Starbucks union is literally Hamas while on the other hand, Starbucks nurtured every leftist cause until there was an attempt to unionize its stores. And since unions hit its profit margins that was suddenly a bridge too far. But it’s still a remarkable move even for an administration that embraces every leftist agenda item and its NLRB appointees who are union hacks and radical leftists.
Starbucks is being accused of illegally shutting down six locations in the Los Angeles area to suppress union organizing activity.
A National Labor Relations Board regional director issued a complaint this week, claiming Starbucks shut down nearly two dozen stores across the country to discourage workers from unionizing.
The new NLRB complaint states Starbucks needs to reopen 23 stores – six of which are in the Los Angeles – and issue back pay to workers who were affected by the closures.
Is there such a thing as “illegally closing stores”? What happens if Starbucks doesn’t reopen them, the Biden administration will nationalize Starbucks and prove that it can lose money running a high-end coffee chain?
Starbucks declined to provide a representative for Eyewitness News to interview, but said the six stores that were closed in the L.A. area were not unionized, and instead were closed for safety reasons.
Starbucks claimed that these were “high-incident” stores with a lot of homeless issues and police responses. Companies are allowed to close stores for business reasons. The NLRB has failed to prove that the store closings were not for business reasons.
Only 7 of the stores had unionized.
But the NLRB is integrated with the SEIU radical leftist union which is trying to unionize Starbucks workers.
And so an insane regime that began with the New Deal is trying to run every aspect of a company’s business on the theory that Starbucks is obligated to open stores and provide jobs.
Then maybe the NLRB can come down and clean the toilets after the junkie vagrants are done with them.
That can’t be legal.
Dude!!! Where have you been for the last almost three years?
Starbucks is getting exactly what it wanted now, fast and hard. I don’t feel sorry for them at all, and their coffee sucks. I hope all these big woke chains and tech companies are forced to keep their stores open in the violent, crime ridden, and nasty leftist run urban centers they helped create. Their customers and unionized employees can get their just desserts from the local criminals and bums, and the companies can go broke trying to keep them open.
As a resident of hick town upstate NY — what the h*** is a starbucket? The local waterfront wing shack serves mysteries ‘coffee’ blends as it is!!! Bring on a plain d*** coffee so as I can get on with the fish’n and hunt’n!!!
Trust me, you don’t want to clean the toilets after the junkie vagrants are done with them. Here in sunny San Jose, I’ve been subjected to public park restrooms with diarrhea spread all over the place, even on the sink. How did it get there? Those junkies must have something bad up their butts.
They wash soiled baby diapers in the sink.
“They” Illegal aliens DO put soiled diapers in sinks. They also fling them all over. You can’t go to Walmart here in San Jose without stepping over soiled diapers in the parking lot.
It’s fucking disgusting. And it’s a social condition in Old Mexico.
They also bury them in the sand at the beach, or just leave them on the top of the sand.
And we’re all supposed to put up with that stuff.
I’ve seen that detritus at beaches. Even lakes, like Lake Perris, in SoCal. WTF? Don’t they have any sense of shame?
Dirty diapers. WTF?
The toilets throw up in the sinks. Even they can’t take it.
That photo reminds me of “Mr Toad’s Wild Ride” at Disneyland. That ride scared me when I was a kid. I liked the tyrannosaurus on the train ride but that wild ride scared me. The train light looked real and even had fake steam.
I really liked Mr. Toad when I was a kid. One of my most pleasant memories was reading about Mr. Toad at my grandmother’s house. Those were the days.
Yeah, the story was better than the Disneyland ride. That thing scared the shit out of me. The story was always cute.
It seems to be a case of instant karma for Starbucks to go along with their instant coffee-tasting slurry. Excellent. I’m a french press guy myself, with a dash of freedom on top.
Nothing in the United States Constitution permits the federal government to even have a Department of Labor, much less a National Labor Relations Board. This nonsense must be extinguished.
This labor dispute and ruling involves the concept of runaway shop. A business closing and relocating to leave a union behind and open where there is no union is the essence of the situation. Past cases are precedent for deciding new cases. There can be differences case by case, for example, leaving without negotiating first or not,
There is no reason that all Starbucks restaurants cannot be unionized. You pay the employees $40 dollars an hour plus benefits. They charge $20 for a cup of coffee because its a Starbucks brand. As a customer you go an ask your employer for $80 dollar an hour in order to buy Starbucks coffee. The manager goes to his director and ask for $200 an hour to keep ahead of his $80 dollar an hour employee. The CEO of the company goes to the BOD and wants a two million dollar a year raise as well. After everyone cross the United States receives adjustments in their wages, this is what happens.
The Starbucks employee goes to the grocery store to pick up a galleon of milk for the family on the way home from work, and find that the galleon of milk that use to be $4.00 a galleon is now $16.00 a galleon. He comes home and tells his wife what happens. She says that is outrageous. He says how did that happen that prices are so high? He blames Biden and he in turn blames Trump, and then Trump blames Obama.
The solution: Everyone works, receives no wages , but everything is free. No wages, no prices, no inflation.
A little humor for the evening.
Years ago a leftist activist (I forget who, but famous enough to be interviewed) said he was exasperated that Instagram was worth billions of dollars but had only 12 employees—amazing but true—so couldn’t be unionized. I thought, “Is Instagram supposed to hire thousands of ‘workers’ it doesn’t need just so this guy can unionize it?”