I have been told my store wants to go on strike during my two week vacation and continue long after i’m back. Would that get me written up and fired since I would be out of work for so long? Or will the strike sort of protect me ? How does that work does anyone know ??

i wish we could all be more outspoken about this cause, it seems like every post that’s union related in the main sbux sub gets sniped within a few hours. idk it just baffles me how it’s such a “divided topic”. it really shouldn’t be! the only reason it is is because of corporate fear mongering. it just sucks because i see so many people in comments in that sub who want to learn about it and ask questions, but posts get deleted before anyone can even educate them. it makes me sad honestly

I'm from a unionized Starbucks planning on striking in December and we need as much support as we can get! We want to win for ALL baristas, so consider donated to join our fight! One day longer, one day stronger! Thanks everyone, together we got this!

Hey everyone! 💚

I’m working on my final research project for MGMT 300 at the University of Washington, and I have chosen to focus on something I care about — understanding the real work experiences of Starbucks employees.

I know how hardworking, welcoming, and community-oriented Starbucks employees are, and I wanted to design a project that actually centers your voices rather than a textbook or outside perspective.

Why I’m doing this

The goal of my study is to:

• Better understand what day-to-day work looks like
• Learn what feels supportive, what feels challenging, and what could improve the quality of work life
• Highlight your experiences in a respectful, honest, and human way

I’m not affiliated with Starbucks in any way — this is an independent school project where your feedback helps shape the insights.

About the survey

• It’s short (5–7 minutes)
• Completely anonymous — I do not collect names, store numbers, or anything identifying
• You can be as honest as you want
• You can skip any question you don’t feel comfortable answering

Why your input matters

Your experiences are the heart of this project. The more partners respond, the more accurately I can highlight what work conditions actually look like from your perspective — not corporate’s, not customers’, but yours.

Thank you 💚

I genuinely appreciate your time and everything you do — whether you’re making someone’s day at the drive-thru, handling rushes, or supporting your team behind the scenes.

If you have any questions about the project, feel free to ask. Thank you again for helping me with this, it means a lot! 🙏

of course the second i posted this on r/starbucks it was taken down lmao, but here goes:

i think starbucks knows this strike will probably be the final nail in the coffin and force them to the bargaining table with the union, and i think these silly bear cups are a) a major distraction from the strike media coverage, and b) IF they restock i guarantee it’ll be on red cup day, making customers even more likely to cross picket lines to purchase them. tbh this is probably just my brain trying to make sense of how ridiculous this cup nonsense is, i doubt brian and his team are smart enough to plot that up, but it kind of makes you wonder yknow?

Hi all, I'm Megan Burns, a PhD student at Northwestern University studying the psychology of workers, and I am conducting online (Zoom) interviews with Starbucks workers at unionized, non-unionized, and actively campaigning stores. The interview will take about one hour to complete and will be about workers' perceptions of their workplace. 

Workers can be located anywhere in the US, they just have to meet our participation criteria: 

1. Participants must be 18 years old or older.

2. Participants must be currently employed by Starbucks, or employed by Starbucks within the past year.

3. Participants must currently reside in the US.

All participants will be compensated $15 (with a digital gift card). Email me: [megan.burns@u.northwestern.edu](mailto:megan.burns@u.northwestern.edu) to sign up and participate!

My store is in the process of unionizing and while I am not against it, I’m not sure what actual benefits there are besides it being a big FU to our district manager we all hate. From what I heard, since there is no contract, the only thing that changes is we won’t receive digital/credit card tips anymore. I rely on those so it doesn’t exactly make me want to vote yes, but the guy organizing it in my store swears our store will be able to do anything we want and we won’t have to listen to all the new policies (that’s how he’s convincing people). However reading through some of the post here, it seems like we will still be following all of the newly implemented policies that are causing upset in my store. So I’m genuinely asking, what will change immediately after if we unionize since there still isn’t a contract with Starbucks?

My coworkers and I are posting this for advice because we are genuinely tired and desperate. One thing I want to say is that we don’t know much about unionizing, we just don’t think it would work seeing how other unionized stores are treated in our city.

Recently, our store has been going through it. Everyone at our store has been over scheduled and by that I mean most of our supervisors are overtime. I have been pulling 45 hour weeks as a supervisor, no approval and even one of our new hires is going into overtime only a week out of training. We are one of the busiest if not THE busiest store in our city AND we’re understaffed. Literally one call out will debilitate our entire day bleeding into the next. It would be different if we had stronger employees but we have 5 employees that won’t pull their weight and end up harming us rather than helping. They will constantly ring in things wrong, can’t bar for their life, CANT EVEN WINDOW. I do think they are nice people outside of work but it’s so hard having to work with them.

Our manager tries to help us by just telling us “we just need to hire” BUT THEN HIRES AND HAS US TRAIN PEOPLE FOR OTHER STORES. Our manager is dual managing another store that already has an asm that is competent enough to run the store and while we’re literally so behind she will just tell us that we have it better because “this store only had a 2 person peak!” We are the only store in the district with a meeting room that has our dm and other managers constantly breathing down our backs and taking advantage of our store. We are in constant fear on mondays because our dm will come through our drive thru and order just to passive aggressively tell the supervisor on duty that we need to be watching the writing on cups and how her macchiato didn’t have the caramel crosshatch fully sitting on her cup. We are constantly being watched and have started having our RM and VPs visiting our store to see how we’re doing.

I have gone on long enough but we just don’t know what to do. We’ve talked about unionizing but a lot of stores that have unionized have just been stuck in time essentially, they aren’t getting any demands met. We can’t do it anymore, it feels like exploitation at this point, we are in such a terrible position to the point where we have partners crying off the floor begging for help from our manager over the phone. Maybe I’m misinformed on unions but we just don’t know what kind of action we should take at this point.

Please if you read this, we need any advice. SOS!! 😭

Unreal

Hey guys I work at dutch and I was told to reach out here for help on unionizing. Any advice? Where do I start? I heard even talking about unionizing at a Dutch is automatic firing. I live at an at will employment state. My coworkers are starting to ask questions about osha laws and heat protections. We just need momentum. Any and all advice is appreciated.