The firing of Starbucks

[Uncle Joe]

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[FBaggins]

1. Except it doesn't appear that she was fired

The reporting appears to be that she had been working ~20 hours per week and wanted to change her availability to one day per week for 6.5 hours. When that wasn't approved, she resigned.

Quite a few companies are short-handed enough that they'll accommodate just about anything to keep staff... but I don't find it surprising that this type of employer (mostly part-time staff scheduled week by week to cover early-morning through late-evening) would not accept someone trying to limit their availability that tightly.

[Celerity]

2. Starbucks Union Leader Says Company Forced Her Out

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/business/starbucks-union-leader-job.amp.html

A Starbucks employee in Buffalo who has helped lead the union campaign at the coffee chain over the past year has accused the company of forcing her out in retaliation for her organizing efforts.

The employee, Jaz Brisack, is the subject of an unfair-labor-practice charge filed by the union, Workers United, on Tuesday evening. The charge said that Starbucks had applied scheduling and availability policies to Ms. Brisack in a discriminatory fashion, and that this had effectively caused her separation from the company.

Ms. Brisack, who has a high profile among Starbucks employees because she is a Rhodes scholar and also works as an organizer for the union, said in an interview that the company had for months rejected her requests to change her work availability to one or two days a week from three.

“For seven months, you and Starbucks have been retaliating against me by refusing to accommodate my availability and my time-off requests and scheduling me when I am not available to work in an attempt to force me to quit,” Ms. Brisack wrote in a letter she gave her manager on Tuesday. “Starbucks has deliberately made my continued employment at the company impossible.”

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[librechik]

3. Rhodes Scholar? Nice--hope she sticks around for the union

[Zilli]

4. It's not much but

I haven't set foot in a starbucks since their complete contempt for workers became a normal and routine new flash. I know that one little old lady not getting a coffee while shopping at the big box store or while on the way to the farmers market will do little to impact the bottom line for this company. Maybe if thousands of shoppers and workers in nearby offices who choose another coffee merchant it will be felt. I've been a pretty regular customer for a couple of decades at least and now I've found other places to get my caffeine bump. WORKERS MATTER!

[Delphinus]

5. Welcome to DU!

Thank you for what you are doing.

[Zilli]

6. Thank you

and all of DU for welcoming me. I've been reading this site for years and suddenly I just couldn't keep my fingers off the keyboard. What a great site this is.