Workers at Starbucks in Coolidge Corner and Allston begin unionization drive

Bucks management knows that dominos topple. Candles can be blown out but wildfires can't be stopped.

Go ahead - order that TikTok latte. Notice how all the people behind the counter started humming Bread and Roses as they added the 27 chestnut shots and the 37 shots of peach tea? Notice how someone put a Woodie Guthrie/Billy Bragg mix on the house speakers as they handed you your prize?

Yeah.

Oh. Yeah.

Do you know anything about either one?

where will I get watery coffee in the Boston area now?

This might be start of a resurgence of unionized labor in fast food. Now that Starbucks and similar places are desperate for labor, the employees have a lot more power. If that reduces income inequality, it's a good thing.

As a consumer I don't think will impact me one way or another. It will probably reduce the number of Starbucks locations if all stores become unionized.

...are you somehow unaware that they pass pretty much all their costs on to you, except for the ones they extract from workers and vendors by paying them less than the worth of what they're getting?

If the costs bother you, as an informed consumer, you can go elsewhere.

Not a price increase in my six-dollar venti oat milk half-caf sugar-free light whip pumpkin spice latte!

In the most pedantic sense, the cost is passed to the employees: union members pay dues to cover the administrative costs of running a union. And ultimately, you have to look at the other "costs of the union" as indirect.

The job of a union is just to negotiate on behalf of the workers. Often, that means the workers want more money and/or benefits, so they have to find that money somewhere and it might be by raising prices. But ultimately it depends on what they negotiate. They might not care so much about benefits and focus on other factors that don't cost money.

Businesses make decisions about how they're going to price their products based on a lot of different factors. Unions just change up the decision making process.

You are going to need more than two stores to make anything happen.

A few days ago, after the Buffalo store voted to unionize, you might have said "you're going to need more than one store to make anything happen". Now that two more have joined in, you say "You're going to need more than two stores to make anything happen" (although I guess now it's three). In a week or a month, what number will you be using to tell the people who are making things happen that they need more to make things happen?

All workers deserve collective bargaining power. This knee-jerk "but other man work hard and no complain" rhetoric is even worse than the workshopped anti-union propaganda that executives pay for. You're a dork lol

You do the job the baristas do and see how you feel after a week.

Otherwise, STFU. You have no idea what you are talking about. At. All.