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Starbucks employees are getting new benefits, but not all of them apply to unionized workers — at least not without collective bargaining.

Starbucks employees are getting more pay and new benefits, but some are only going to baristas that haven’t unionized. A National Labor Relations Board judge previously found that similar moves by Starbucks violate federal labor law, with the company appealing the decision.

The question of which workers get what perks and benefits has been one part of a bitter fight between Starbucks and union organizers across the country. Since the first location voted to unionize nearly two years ago, Starbucks has fought aggressively against the union drive. The NLRB has said that in some cases, the company engaged in illegal practices, with Starbucks refuting these claims.

As of mid-October, nearly 360 stores had voted in favor of a union, with the results certified by the NLRB. About 70 voted against, with those results certified. There are roughly 9,300 company-operated Starbucks locations in the United States.

    • Nougat@kbin.social
      91·
      11 months ago

      McD’s coffee is really good. They changed it a bunch of years ago, and it got so much better. It’s my personal favorite for drive-thru coffee.

        • Nougat@kbin.social
          2·
          11 months ago

          Really? I never knew that. With that in mind, I now understand why the People of the North loved Tim Horton’s so much, and have vocally lamented its decline in quality.

          Edit: Seems like the reason I didn’t know that is because it’s not true.

          Mother Parkers [which is a privately held family company] is the supplier of coffee to McDonald’s Canada. Tim Hortons used to use this supplier prior to constructing its own roasting facility [in April, 2009]. McDonald’s has had a coffee supply agreement with Gavia Gourmet Coffee since 1983.

        • Nougat@kbin.social
          7·
          11 months ago

          I feel like Starbucks is bad coffee. It’s an excellent coffee-flavored carrier for syrups and creams, so if you want a dessert drink, it’s great. But if all you want is coffee, it’s flat burnt shit.

          • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            I’ve had an Americano from Starbucks (espresso, water, nothing else) and it was fine.

            I wouldn’t get regular black coffee from any chain place, though. Drip coffee in particular is just nasty, sometimes even through trying to mask it with cream and sugar.

        • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          11 months ago

          Starbucks is pretty bad coffee. Beans are mid, their roast is terrible and everything tastes burned unless you layer it in whip and syrup.

          • agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            11 months ago

            And its highly over caffinated compred to normal coffee so if you do go to sbux, any coffee you get elsewhere is sure to not feel like enough chemically. Their decaf coffee can contain as much caffien as some caffinated teas.

    • treefrog@lemm.ee
      21·
      11 months ago

      It’s $5 of milk and sugar with a splash of McDonald’s coffee.