Starbucks Forum:
Last spring, when I transferred from Indianapolis to Nashville, my manager informed me that she had to cut my pay by $.25 per hour to adjust for 'the market'. I accepted this initially, assuming that the cost of living in Nashville would be less than in Indianapolis. After living in Nashville for a few weeks, I realized the exact opposite. In my opinion, Nashville is much more expensive than Indianapolis, and at the VERY least, is equal to Indianapolis. Over several months now, my income has been greatly impinged upon, and living has become more difficult. Do I have any potential for redress?
Hi Starbucksjon, I'm sorry
Hi Starbucksjon,
I'm sorry to hear about your wage decrease. We'd be happy to lend a hand.
A lot of unjust things happen at work but unfortunately most of these things are completely legal. So first of all, I don't believe you have a legal remedy.
There are some who would say that you could find a remedy by using Starbucks' internal channels by yourself. I disagree with this view, Starbucks knows very well what they did to you, it's not a matter of just one isolated bad decision. It's important for folks to understand that their individual experience at Starbucks is a function of corporate-wide policies designed to keep labor costs low and workers under tight control.
What you can do is join the Starbucks Workers Union, either individually or with other folks at your store. The SWU links groups of Starbucks workers at various stores to each other and to other members of the IWW. The Union then deploys collective strategies to correct injustices. Confronting management together increases our power and thus our ability to win demands.
To get started just drop us a note at starbucksunion@yahoo.com.
So, when someone gets a 25 ce
So, when someone gets a 25 cent raise, it's not noticable and Starbucks should do something to raise it more. But, when someone moves and they lose 25 cents (which I'm pretty sure is common, whether it's Starbucks or any other company), it makes all the difference in the world. You guys are nothing buy hypocrites. Figure out if 25 cents is a lot, or if it's a little and fucking stick to it.
The only hypocrites here are
The only hypocrites here are Starbucks who claims to care about their employees while denying them a living wage.
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[quote=Organize]The only hypo
[quote=Organize]The only hypocrites here are Starbucks who claims to care about their employees while denying them a living wage.
no gods no masters[/quote]
Welcome to the world of entry level jobs. Starbucks cares about its employees a lot more than any other company I've been with. Why, it's thanks to Starbucks that I don't have to worry about taking 12 credit hours a semester to keep on my families health insurance. I can now get my own, have an easier class schedule, and work all at the same time. This is going to be the easiest I've had it in a while, and it's all thanks to Starbucks. Now, if I happened to work at any of the previous jobs I've had, I'd still have to keep up those 12 credit hours. The problem is, for my degree, the second semester classes can end up at weird times, making it hard for me to work around. But, I wouldn't be able to get a good health insurance. So I'd have to stress myself out, work enough hours to pay off the car I'm hopefully about to get, AND get that school in. I also know for a fact that I can't be the only partner out of the 97,000 Starbucks has to have a success story like this. So far, it's only the lazy partners who have any real problems, so the union is just a protection from themselves, not the company.
The questions this post begs
The questions this post begs are
One, out of the 97,000 is your story the norm or the exception?
Two, just because other working situations are less fair, dose this make Starbucks fair?
Three, does this mean a Union would not be beneficial to Starbucks?
no gods no masters
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[quote=Organize]The questions
[quote=Organize]The questions this post begs are
One, out of the 97,000 is your story the norm or the exception?
Two, just because other working situations are less fair, dose this make Starbucks fair?
Three, does this mean a Union would not be beneficial to Starbucks?
no gods no masters[/quote]
Union still isn't a proper noun, so you should stop capitalizing it. Now, if it was the "Starbucks Workers Union", then you would need to seeing as how it is part of a proper title. With that out of the way, the situations I've read on this site of union successes within Starbucks are just whiney people who think they deserve everything handed to them. Like the guy who got sent home an hour and a half early. Oh boo fucking hoo. That happens with any company. Doing less business than normal, send an employee home to save on labor. But no, the union comes in, "blah blah blah we're a bunch of rotten assholes and we think you should pay this person for an hour and a half of nothingness." That is NOT what a union should be doing, it should be protecting employees from real harm, not whiney lazy assholes.
I think his story rides along
I think his story rides along with a great majority of successful partners at Starbucks.
Starbucks as a company does SO MUCH more than it has to for it's Partners. It does more than any other company I've ever been with. I think the only way to compare "fair" with "not fair" is to compare other workplaces [and not your ideal workplace, real workplaces].
A union might benefit Starbucks, but I think it would also hurt it. It's a little more complicated, but maybe I'll start a new thread with my take on it... then again, maybe I won't.
Would you mind explaining "no gods no masters"?