Starbucks baristas strike ~
‘Union members to begin a 5 day strike in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle on Friday
Union workers demand better pay, more staff, better schedules. Strike could reach "hundreds of stores" by Dec. 24, union says’
Starbucks workers' union plans strike in 3 US cities ahead of Christmas rush
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/starbucks-workers-union-strike-friday-la-chicago-seattle-2024-12-20/
Good for them
Sounds like business at local coffee shops will be way up. Why go to Starbucks when there are so many better coffee shops? Starbucks is for when you are stuck at the hospital or airport.
I didn't say that at all. I'm saying that non-chains are better than chains. I'm a heavy Starbucks bean user for my home, but I'm not choosing their crafted drinks over a local shop.
Rising Star
Wonder how hard it would be to automate these stores.
Just get a keurig
Starbucks coffee is dog💩. If anything they should pay me to drink it
Pro
I still don’t understand this. Maybe I’m too far removed but being a barista will not make you wealthy. They’re asking for $20+/hour and 5% raise each year. What?! Most people don’t even get a 3% raise.
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Being that this is west coast locations, I can see why they want $20/ hour if they are working downtown in the HCOL areas.
The 5% raise… that is high. But then again inflation has been that high or higher since 2020, so I understand the reasoning.
Is it possible? Will the market sustain it? McDonald’s/ California went $20/hour and then did a ton of automating. And lots of restaurants in CA closed.
Now doing this in small town in a low cost area, $13-16 an hour is probably too high for that.
I’ll be interested to find out what Starbucks wants to become - artisan coffee house with $20 coffees or the neighborhood coffee center. That is two very different clientele.
Folgers needs to take opportunity to bring back making coffee at home again.
I mean Nespresso has captured the market pretty well with their machines, but people still want to go to get their coffee as a “treat”. I’d like to see the amount of investment it will take to retrofit all stores with barista robots, not sure it’s something they can do anytime soon, though I’m sure the technology exists
To all these people talking about automation, the move to automated coffee extraction happened years ago. The draw of Starbucks is in its product design, not its hand-crafted preparation (despite their claims about it). But the other parts are harder to automate if you’re actually running a store front.
I thought their pay and benefits was already pretty good… 🤷🏻♀️
My goodness. People might need to pour liquid into cups at home now.
Alex I will take things for $500 that don’t impact me. Or things for $1000 IDGAF
Rising Star
Not happy? Go find a better paying job elsewhere (if they are capable). They make it as if their job requires some advanced degree or skill. 🙄
Rising Star
We are in decline. People are trying to unionize jobs that teenagers should be doing for a few years max. There is no real upward mobility without intense specialization that is not transferrable between roles.
Yet it’s a job teenagers can do…. So why should others pay you more because you don’t care about upgrading your skills?
Chief
Good thing I never order from there. It's overpriced and you can make better at home.