Hi, I'm Alyssa Malano, and this is Sorry Not Sorry. So, You know when you get your Starbucks in the morning, you're going to want to hear this.

One of the interesting side effects of the post-Covid economy has been a surge in the power and influence employees' whole.

Wages and service industry jobs have risen dramatically as employers struggle to find workers.

However, there have also been increasing stories of worker exploitation,

leading to a surge in new unionization efforts.

To discuss all of it, we have invited Michelle Eisen onto the show.

Michelle is a Starbucks barista, an organizing member of Starbucks Workers United.

Starbucks employees in Seattle just the very latest to vote in favor of union representation.

Meanwhile, New York, Staten Island, Amazon employees are bracing for another union vote.

Over the past 18 months, Starbucks has waived the most aggressive and illegal

union-busting campaign in the modern history of our country.

Starbucks, former Chief Executive Howard Schultz was in the hot seat today in front of a Senate

committee where he defended himself and the coffee chain giant against allegations of

union busting.

The more of us to stand together, the more we send a message to Starbucks and also each other,

and even people who don't work at Starbucks that there are folks who aren't going to tolerate being

abused by their employer. There are people who aren't going to tolerate

under working conditions. Hi my name is Michelle Eisen and I'm leading the

fight to unionize Starbucks. Sorry not sorry.

Michelle, thank you so much for being a part of the podcast. Why don't you tell everyone a little bit about who you are and what you do?

Absolutely. My name is Michelle Eisen. I am a 12-year Starbucks worker located here in Buffalo, New York,

and I'm helping to lead the unionization effort here in the US.

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