what's like when somebody orders something, what's the most annoying thing to have to make when you're like, ugh, God.

Any drink with sweet cream foam.

It's all cold drinks with sweet cream on top.

They put it on everything.

Everything.

This is death, sex, and money.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.

I'm Anna Sayle.

When we call Jacob Lawson, a 23-year-old Starbucks ship supervisor from Utah, he was on his way to another Starbucks store in Idaho to help them start a union.

It's not too far from Utah. I mean, it's 150 miles, but it's, I've driven farther to go help us work.

Unionized.

When we first reached 20-year-old Layla Dalton, a former Starbucks employee who says she was fired for union activity,

she had flown from Arizona to Wisconsin to visit another fired employee for moral support.

My first instinct is let me reach out to them and see how they're doing, because I know exactly how I felt when I got fired.

Hi, can I get a salted caramel cream and cold fruit, please?

By now, you've probably heard that the Starbucks union is having a moment, as are unions in general.

Maybe you've even heard the term hot labor summer floating around on social media.

The National Labor Relations Board says petitions to file unions have risen over 50% in the past year.

And Starbucks makes up nearly a quarter of new petitions

since January of 2021. More than 175 stores in 30 states have won union elections. And a reason for

Starbucks' relative success, one is their locations are small, so it's easier to get a simple majority vote

in a store of 18 employees versus around 2,000 warehouse workers, like for Amazon. But

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