The Highs and Lows of Being a Starbucks Union Organizer

Death, Sex & Money

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Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Starbucks union is having a moment. We talked to three workers in three different states about the victories and the very real consequences of going up against a multi-billion dollar company.

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0:00.0	What's like when somebody orders something, what's the most annoying thing to have to make
0:05.1	when you're like, oh God.
0:06.9	I need your e-dream phone.
0:08.9	It's cold, dream, sweet cream on top.
0:12.0	They put it on everything.
0:13.8	Everything.
0:14.8	This is Deaf, Sex, and Money.
0:21.9	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot, and need to talk about more.
0:28.8	I'm Anna Sal.
0:37.5	When we called Jacob Lawson, a 23-year-old Starbucks ship supervisor from Utah, he was on
0:43.2	his way to another Starbucks store in Idaho to help them start a union.
0:47.6	It's not too hard for me to use it.
0:49.8	I mean, it's 150 miles, but it's, I've driven farther to help the store unionized.
0:58.2	When we first reached 20-year-old Layla Dalton, a former Starbucks employee who says she was
1:03.1	fired for union activity, she had flown from Arizona to Wisconsin to visit another fired
1:09.0	employee for moral support.
1:11.2	My first instinct is let me reach out to them to see how they're doing because I know
1:15.3	exactly how I felt when I got fired.
1:19.2	Hi, I got to talk to a caramel creamie for group news like Monday.
1:25.2	I know you've probably heard that the Starbucks union is having a moment as our unions in general.
1:32.0	Maybe you've even heard the term hot labor summer floating around on social media.
1:36.5	The National Labor Relations Board says petitions to file unions have risen over 50 percent
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