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Behind the Money

The next hurdle for unions in the US

Behind the Money

Topher Forhecz

Markets, Investing, News, Banking, Finance, Business, Business News, Crypto

4.4350 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Over the last year, Starbucks baristas across the US banded together to form unions at the stores where they work. And workers at other big name companies like Amazon have joined in to organise their own workplaces, too. But the FT’s labour and equality correspondent Taylor Nicole Rogers explains how these and other new unions around the US are running up against a classic problem in labour. Can they convince their employers to come to the bargaining table to hash out a contract?  


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For further reading:

US trade unions: Inside the revival brewing at Starbucks

Joe Biden secures deal to avert US rail strike 

Howard Schultz vows Starbucks rebound after coffee chain ‘lost its way’

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On Twitter, follow Taylor Nicole Rogers (@TaylorNRogers) and Michela Tindera (@mtindera07


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One of the registers broke down for some reason, so you had someone running back and forth between the front and the

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back just running with people's credit cards, running with their phones to scan the

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app. It was chaos and none of us could take a break.

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It was just, it was a mess.

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And I think that was the first time I cried at work

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because it was just so overwhelming.

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And I think I was sitting in the back room trying to get myself to like go back on the floor and I was like this is coffee at the end of the day and why is this causing so much stress and I was just sitting back there like thinking like I'm working my ass off to make this happen to make people's days and yet I don't get paid enough for this you know like I just don't

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Casey says that experiences like this made her realize something.

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