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A unionized Starbucks coffee shop?… 2021 has been a wild ride. The employees in Buffalo need to research the history of unions and how dead they are in today’s work force.
You mean like the police and fire unions?
It appears they have done their research. Unions created the middle class, with livable wages and benefits from working only 1 job. Giving workers the time and opportunity to raise their families and contribute to their communities Their decline, orchestrated by big business and the Republican legislators has resulted in the death of those middle class jobs while the rich get richer.
Notice those self order kiosks at the McDonalds in the airport? They may be paying $15/hr now, but they also were able to eliminate at least 2 people per shift. Coming soon to most other quick service restaurants. Those were planned long before the pandemic, as the “Fight for $15” raged on. So what was the net effect?
You may want to pay $12 per cup for coffee to support higher wages at $tarbucks, but the avg. person doesn’t, as well as anyone with common sense.
I’m already out of the Starbucks game except for the occasional treat. If they raise prices even more to cover this I won’t be buying at all. Less stores and less customers for a more expensive product, but Starbucks is just the tip of the iceberg. Think of all the places your cutting back on because their getting too expensive as your groceries and gas go up drastically. These type of jobs were never meant to be “middle class” jobs. Labor costs have always ben the highest expense in restaurants so do they raise prices to cover these wages? The problem here is it used to be high schoolers, young people living at home, second and extra income earners taking these jobs, but now they no longer do it and you have immigrants trying to support families in all the fast food places. Starbucks raising wages to as high as $23.hr is not going to solve the problem unless your willing to accept it as a boutique kind of place for high wage earners that can afford it.
Nancy/Karen, it’s a coffee shop…. If that is what you have staked your middle class existence to, then you have really lowered your expectations. As for the death of middle class jobs, GOP has done a horrible job killing them off since every organization is begging for employees at every position.