Starbucks Stops Opposing Its Baristas’ Union

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Starbucks Stops Opposing Its Baristas’ Union
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"why just BLACK lives?"

Nobody said other positions SHOULDN'T be, just that EVERY hourly position SHOULD be. And I agree. Salaries positions should also be, but hourly employees are usually on the lowest rungs of the ladder.

But management and c-suites don't need unions. They already have the power hourly just doesn't have.

You're overlooking the hundreds of thousands of everyday salaried workers being laid off in the last couple years by drawing a line that doesn't exist between them and vague "hourly" workers you describe here - I have a good friend in an hourly position that makes $60/ hr with good benefits, and one that makes around $40/hr with crap benefits from his salaried position, both were laid off for no reason last year in one of these rounds of indiscriminate, unjustified firings solely to juice stock dividends.

No reason to not full court press on this issue FROM ALL WORKERS- labor needs to be unionized, PERIOD - McDonalds or Microsoft, all of it. Nobody is even talking about the relatively non-existent number of people in the c suite here? HUGE ocean between them and the salaried workers at their companies.

Good job with the solidarity there, bud. The best way to rouse support is to be confrontational toward anyone who is trying to join in, lmao. Why should this guy care about your movement if you don't care about his?

I don't care what the second part of your message says, because I don't care to read past the dumb capital words you put in for drama.

Edit: I'm just the messenger, lmao! You guys are neutering your own social movement with your lame attitudes. I'm just telling you about it.

You have a lot of opinions about things you refuse to even read. Why should anyone take yours seriously?

Because I'm already on your side, and you're still annoying. Good luck convincing anyone who actually disagrees with you, which is the only thing that matters.

Yawn, not reading that whiny ass comment.

"I'm not going to work to improve my skills or my arguments, and will instead continue to fail". Whatever you want to do, lol

The irony is deafening.

And which irony is that?

Use the context, pal, I believe in you!

You don't know, do you? You made the comment, so you back it up.

It's really backing itself up the more inane crap you write here.

This happens every time I throw out an opinion that's even slightly controversial on Lemmy. Eventually, people realize they're wrong and they can't give me an actual counter point. So they resort to basically what's happening now, which is derailing the conversation by refusing to elaborate when I ask in good faith what they mean. This time, it's some apparent irony that they won't explain, probably because it doesn't even exist. Maybe the person doesn't respond because they are afraid I'll just dismantle their point again.

I mean, I can go back and reread all of messages from the mass of dissenters and try to to rationalize whatever "irony" it is they're talking about, but irony is subjective. And now were left with this permanent internet monument where nobody was able to actually throw out any counter arguments with real substance to them. So I guess I win?

You can't seriously be this stupid, but maybe you are so I'll throw you a bone.

You're "arguing" that someone's writing is coming across poorly to the audience and hurting their point. In a thread where the voting record clearly indicates that your writing is coming off poorly to the audience.

Didn't think that needed such a blatant explanation, but here we are.

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You, didn’t do shit other than complain how someone responded to a question.

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Fuck your tone policing.

Tone policing! Hahaha. That's a hilarious concept. Fuck your tone policing-policing, then, lmao.

Wow, you just don't get it do you?

Or maybe you don't?

Yeah, because someone addiing emphasis to their comment is the person whonis driving people away and not the person being a child about how someone speaks.

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