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Bonus: Triple Shot of Starbucks Workers (Patreon)

Published:
2022-09-15 03:13:58
Imported:
2026-06

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Will and Chris host a round table of three organizers from across the country fighting to unionize Starbucks: Vic from Buffalo, Alisha from Oklahoma City, and Quentin from Portland, OR. They discuss the progress they’ve made at their respective locations, how they achieved it, and where they hope to go from there. We also discuss Starbucks’ retaliation methods (ranging from buffoonish to insidious), various legal challenges they’ve faced, and building bonds across the labor movement. Also, the most insane Starbucks orders they’ve ever seen.

Support Starbucks Workers United:

No Contract No Coffee pledge: https://crm.broadstripes.com/ctf/SJID0H

Solidarity Fund for SBWU partners by Coworker: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/starbucksworkersfund

DSA Labor Solidarity Fund: https://laborsolidarity.com

And here is Alisha’s Jacobin piece on Starbucks use of reproductive benefits as a cudgel against organizers: https://jacobin.com/2022/08/starbucks-abortion-transgender-health-care-promises-pr-stunt-union-contract

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orc

based and unionpilled

Baron

Let’s go, excellent, we love to see it, etc

Absolute Unit

no mention of the impending rail road strike?

owen

lol

chapotraphouse

already looking into contacts to cover the strike if/when it happens.

Mike Loudin

Unions! They're good folks!!

Claire Costigan

If you guys ever wanna cover the longest Starbucks strike so far (60 days and counting) I'm one of the main organizers of the store and we could definitely use the good press (and donations to our strike fund)!

K H

RLA. We love it folks! RLA covered workers should have majority control of the company board of any holding company.

Joseph Mabrey

These kids still got that DSA twinkle in their eye. Embrace Communism kids.

Ozzie

A nationwide barista strike would be a thing of absolute beauty

Geeb

I’m glad that they give unions a platform but these episodes…folks, they’re not good

MisterFingerguns

Organizing labor is truly a life's work that leaves a legacy.

owen

No treats 4 u

Jim McKenna

Solidarity forever! Labor organizing is so very important. That said, my heart sinks a little bit when I hear the DSA is involved. In my opinion, the DSA is nothing but a paste and cover front for the democratic party, designed to give idealistic leftists with no direction someplace to go until they can be assimilated.

Antipaganda

This one was actually pretty good. Of the union episodes, I'd put it in the top 3.

Emerson Kerr

I’m sorry but if you’re not Voting G.G. Allin, in ‘the most important election of our lives’ than your voting for fascism. Look I don’t like G.G. Anymore than you, I disagree with his choice to throw human shit and stab ppl. However he is the democratic nominee.

Casey Odinsson

DSA completely fucked over my tenant union organizing as soon as they got involved

Jim McKenna

I’m in a trade union. I’m an activist with IMT. Okay with you, comrade?

Hunter

Interested to see how this plays out. I expect this will set the precedent for future fast-food unions

Absolute Unit

Unions and RR owners havent agreed to it yet.

etienne

the RRs just conceded on the totally batshit attendence policy lol. love too roll back this horror show back to circa 2018 when it was just starting to hit branches on the way down the cliff

etienne

humbly suggesting Justin Roczniak @who_shot_jgr @wtyppod he already put out like 5 feature-length podded casts bout railroad operations and work conditions over the last like 4 years. way ahead of the curve

Absolute Unit

wtyp is great. and justin just did an ep with work stoppage on the strike too.

helvetica.hottie

There's a bux location in Memphis, TN that just voted to unionize too. Memphis Seven is their @ on social.

etienne

1) yeah it ruled 2) jesus christ they're taking the deal? is this real?

Absolute Unit

unions and RR owners still need to vote to ratify it

etienne

sure looks like the RRs decided to just throw cash at the workforce for them to keep putting up with their completely insane mode of operations and they're gonna get away with it

grimbo

The point of order convention video made me realize how worthless the DSA is

Graham

The Bernie -> Chapo pipeline is strong.

TangiePower

This is the labor content we crave, thanks for doing this

Michael Ehrenreich

So glad you’re doing an episode on Starbucks - no joke one of the most inspiring things happening in the labor movement in a long long time

Maxwell Harkness

Yeah this was good content and inspiring to hear even with all the difficulty they're facing

LankyShooter

Glad they’re seeing so much progress. It sucks to think how far big manufacturing in the Midwest is from unionizing. Probably my greatest observed irony in the small arms (guns/ammo manufacturing). The “free market” has swallowed up all the companies. Hardly anyone works there 20+ years like they used to. People are worked to the bone and turnover is high af.

LankyShooter

Is that like the upper left quadrant of the political memes? Scary 😛

vermouth

dang hit em wit the shut up period sheeeesh

vermouth

i embrace communism by not organizing in the workplace and keeping my opinions silent out of fear of being fired. unironically i do this

Sinkpiss

Wow these guys are smart and determined enough to get a better job than Starbucks

Emily Richardson

Love this. And I love to see Bernie’s real effect on my generation.

Emily Richardson

They’re determined to establish protections and good working environments for those that come later. They’re good folks.

H G

glad to hear from the portland guy -- seems like nobody understands that progressive/liberal/whatever metros have horrible local media and very limited union saturation within our working class. Places like portland, seattle, etc have what feels like direct media supervision from the gates, bezos, and local gentry types

Doug Cartel

"this disgusting thin-legged man agrees with me that mail-in ballots are evil"

Sam Sal

The “how to start a union” episode yall did with Brace way back was the catalyst that got me and my coworkers to organize our shop a couple years ago. They just got their contract a couple months ago. These episodes really do a lot of good.

Jonathan G

you said "kids" twice

Cardboard

The next iteration of the dirtbag left is to get involved with union organizing

Josh Fabos

As a former Starbucks worker the TikTok drink trends was so awful to deal with. My worst memory though is having to add 16 packets of sugar to a large cappuccino for a regular every week.

E G

Solidarity! Labor first. Always. Please keep the union episodes coming.

Josh G

Hope the bills mafia doesn't come after my comrades in Buffalo

etienne

we came to the negotiation table but some drunk fuck jumped from a pickup truck into it and broke it in half

Julie Baxter

Glad to live long enough to see unions come back.

Joseph Mabrey

The Seattle Times is one of the most reactionary "mainstream" local papers out there. The Stranger all day. Also, I think it's weird Chapo has never did an episode on Socialist Alternative or Kshama Sawant when it's clearly a better option then the DSA clowns. 15 dollar minimum wage and amazon unions started in Seattle because of SA, while DSA has fought radical initiatives the whole way locally.

Tom Joad

Hey alisha. I'm a fellow okie too. Live only a few hours from your spot. Need anything,let me knew

Baron

Hey Casey, the HJC actually just started up a tenant organizing committee called ETOC (yes we copied EWOC, but purely out of admiration). It’s mostly led by organizers from TUs affiliated with ATUN-RSIA. If you have anyone wanting to go through training or participate in mentorship of new TUs, we’d love to have them. Sorry for the bad past experience.

etienne

I just had this idle thought that Bernie 2016 was about as far from Occupy Wall Street (2011) as we are today from Bernie 2016. Would you people say that Bernie 2016 left a better aftermath than Occupy? I think I can say yes. Occupy was such a damp squib and oxygen waster that even if all that's came out of Bernie is a bunch of people who learned the ropes of doing door knocking and union organizing, then it's a better outcome

James Murray

Hey, another fired Starbucks worker here from a store that unionized in Metro Detroit. Solidarity to all the panelists. I want a second everything they said about being brought in to this effort through Bernie, through DSA, and not least of all through Chapo lol. I wish a little bit more time could have been spent on talking about the future of this effort and the strategy around it. The flip side to such a big emphasis being put on winning union elections is that the solidarity and organizing committees in a lot of these stores are not being developed as thoroughly as they might need to be. The next step for a lot of us is going to be having to hone our skills as organizers who can work through setbacks and difficulties within our own workplaces, and that's going to mean finding seasoned organizers to mentor us. Just like one panelist at the end said, EWOC and DSA are going to be crucial for that. We also should be keeping an eye out on the relationship between SBWU, Workers United, and SEIU. SEIU is better than most, but they are a service union at the end of the day, and we should't be surprised if this radical arm of their union is eventually going to be in conflict with the more liberal leadership.

C. Ries

you look twice as weasel like as he sounds

Shiv

we need this

Shiv

Great ep, keep ‘em coming!

Polly Walnuts

I love my fellow Okie and her normal voice + y'all. I feel so seen, y'all. :)

Zach Lemon

Sort of missing the point there, bud.

Zach Lemon

That backfired, didn't it?

TangiePower

We’ve been adrift, looking for something to rally around. It should have always been stuff like this in retrospect.

Calum

If you're looking for help to unionize your workplace, try reaching out to your local IWW branch! Disappointed that the guest from Portland didn't mention that when discussing not going through WU.

Baron

Central OK IWW has been supporting the SBWU efforts here in OKC too!

Baron

If you’re in the OKC, our DSA chapter has been trying to help with organizing efforts, you’re obv invited to join us in doing it!