Why Starbucks, Apple And Google Are Unionizing Now For The First Time

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Since December, workers have led a surge of unionization unlike anything this country has seen since the Great Depression. It’s happening at arduous workplaces like one Amazon warehouse in New York, but it’s also hitting an entirely new sector: retail and big tech. First-ever unions have now formed at more than 200 Starbucks, an Apple store in Maryland, a Google Fiber contractor, REI, Trader Joe’s, Kickstarter, and a gaming division of Microsoft. Here’s why experts say it’s happening now, and why these progressive companies are fighting back against the movements.
Amazon has captured headlines for union drives at its warehouses, including a successful effort on New York's Staten Island. But activity is picking up elsewhere in retail and tech at big companies that are generally viewed as progressive, with no history of labor unions.
As of Wednesday, 209 Starbucks stores have officially voted to unionize according to the National Labor Relations Board. First-ever unions have also formed at an Apple store in Maryland, a Google Fiber contractor, REI, Trader Joe's, Kickstarter and Activision Blizzard.
"There's really no rational world in which the Amazon Labor Union or Starbucks Workers United should win," said John Logan, a labor and employment studies professor at San Francisco State University. "And yet they did, and in the case of Starbucks Workers United, they won over and over and over again."
The wave at Starbucks started in December with a store in Buffalo, New York, where workers voted 19 to eight to join the large, established Workers United union. In one example of the benefits a big union can bring, Workers United has created a $1 million fund to support Starbucks workers who lose wages as a result of organizing activities like striking.
The movement spread fast. Within six weeks, about 20 other stores filed for elections. Eight months later, about 45 elections have failed, and more than 200 of Starbucks' 9,000 U.S. stores have unionized.
"A lot of it is concentrated amongst young workers, sometimes college-educated young workers, often working in sort of low-paying service sector jobs: overworked, underpaid, overeducated workers," Logan said. He said their level of enthusiasm is causing a rush of panic elsewhere in the corporate world.
"The CEOs of all of these big companies are horrified by what happened at Starbucks and they're thinking this is what we want to avoid at all costs," Logan said.
CNBC talked to workers inside the unions forming at Starbucks and Apple about why the movements are gaining traction now.
"It has to do with the pandemic," said Laura Garza, a barista who helped organize her New York City-based Starbucks location, which voted to unionize in April. "It made a lot of workers that continued to work during the pandemic reevaluate what is most important to them. And honestly, it has to go to better pay, livable wage for everybody."
In addition to the pandemic conditions, numerous other factors have collided to create what labor experts call a perfect storm for organizing. The U.S. has seen four decades of stagnant wages. Companies that already had healthy profits before the pandemic made even more money after lockdowns. And there are lots of jobs available without enough applicants to fill them. What's more, the Biden administration is pro-union.
In May, Garza and organizers from Amazon and other companies were invited to the White House to discuss their efforts with Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh.
"They heard some of our stories of fierce anti-union busting, not only from Starbucks but from Amazon," Garza said of her visit to the White House. "Secretary Walsh said in particular that Starbucks should just come to the table with its partners and work together to collaborate."
Starbucks criticized the visit and requested its own White House meeting, which hasn't happened.
Watch this deep dive to learn more.
Chapters:
1:40 Why they organized
5:28 Why Apple and Starbucks fight back
10:24 What unionized workers want
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Why Starbucks, Apple And Google Are Unionizing Now For The First Time

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@Elram_91 2 года назад

With decades of stagnant wages, I don’t see why one would vote against unionizing.

@blacksquid270 2 года назад

They celebrate now, but when the union dues eat into your paycheck with little benefit in return and you see union officials with expensive cars and vacation homes, they'll realize the double-edged sword of unionizing.

@omegabat39 2 года назад

I would say even just the climate of employee abuse.

@marcoroberts9462 2 года назад

@@blacksquid270 found the amazon bot

@linzierogers5024 2 года назад

I'll give you a couple. They are fear and habit. People need meat and potatoes on the table. With inflation as it stands today there has to be millions of people one or two paychecks away from homelessness. Employers know this and use it to their advantage. If you will notice you rarely hear a lot of bad press about worker cooperatives. With them unionization is not a problem. Why go out on strike against a company of which you are part owner? Whole Foods, Before Amazon purchased it, was a worker co-op. The largest worker cooperative in the world is in Mandragon, Spain. Last I read it was the seventh largest corporation in Spain. For some strange reason Americans tend to accept things as they are. It is what it is.

@philyjfry 2 года назад

"cUz iTs cOmUNizM"

@Joel-ew1zm 2 года назад

The apple thing makes perfect sense. Apple advertises the "genius bar" to their customers, implying that geniuses work at apple stores. Who pays a "genius" $20 an hour? Typical corporation, over promising to their customer and under supporting their staff who have to meet those promises made on their behalf. An apple employee is a "genius" in terms of marketing to the customer but just a retail hourly help in terms of negotiating their wages.

@parkerlong2658 2 года назад

@Collen Flarity houses and cars were also multiple times cheaper considering inflation. Idk why someone can seriously not understand the concept of inflation after the last few years.

@parkerlong2658 2 года назад

@Collen Flarity ah that's not really a factor considering the majority of America lives in 1000 square feet houses just like we did in the fifties. The only real major difference is that suburban houses newly constructed post 1980s are generally bigger. But the majority of individuals in America don't live in those kinds of homes. Even a house with the same dimensions as one built from the fifties would be significantly more expensive with inflation considered. Your talking about a multiple time increase. Housing is 30 times more expensive than the fifties yet the federal minimum wage in the fifties to current only increased by about 10 times. Also healthcare costs and commodity prices have outpaced wages. It's just kind of a fact that people were proportionally paid more even the lowest jobs in the 50s

@tigana 2 года назад

I mean $20USD an hour is pretty good… But still good for them

@vshah1010 2 года назад

They are paid well for the skills that the job requires. $20 is good pay for that job. I don't understand why they want a union. It seems more from greed than need.

@gabdongipark 2 года назад

thw worst to me is that they got employee benefits in other countries, they value their employees more in other countries.

@-.TS.- 2 года назад

My Company conveniently parted ways with anyone considering unionizing. Management roles were placed in a manager organization. Entry level staff was very replaceable at the end of the day.

@Novastar.SaberCombat 2 года назад

Of course! The rich are PETRIFIED that the poor will unite against them. 💪😎🤟 Gotta keep the peons and plebs down. Else, the yachts, vacations, exploitation, and corruption will all go bye-bye.

@linusmlgtips2123 2 года назад

Sorry to hear that. Nobody should be fired for attempting to collectively bargain. What evil scum.

@eddiew2325 2 года назад

Yep let’s just hire the random crackhead on the street

@JohnnyAmerique 2 года назад

Which is precisely why unions are so important - to bring balance and fairness to the labour market. Yeah, individual workers might be easily replaceable, but try operating with no entry level workers. Union representation equalizes what is otherwise an unconscionably unjust imbalance of power.

@everythingisfine9988 2 года назад

They were able to find people? All I see around here is "help wanted" signs. Even advertisements and announcements over store shop PAs are looking for people

@darren424242 2 года назад

These companies acting like their workers being in a union is the end of the world. Yet this is the norm in many other countries in the world, where the worker benefits are superior to those commonly found in the USA.

@bear1more287 2 года назад

Be surprised how much money these companies make weather in U.S or foreign country they make money and don’t share with there employees

@Mrmudbone_gaming 2 года назад

My union was organized in 1891. In IBEW local 595 and union is the way to go

@youtubelearning2990 2 года назад

I feel the most important aspect of a union is being protected. You have people who’ll go to battle for you. I’ve been fired from a job where my managers had ego’s and were used to pushing employees around.

@JM-gg8ko 2 года назад

Most manufacturing jobs have left America because of Unions and those jobs will never go back and in the meantime, Unions have done nothing to stop 85,000 H1B visas from China and India to come in and take the high paying jobs that should be going to Americans.

@manicpepsicola3431 2 года назад

@@JM-gg8ko common bootlicker L

@mattkennedy6115 2 года назад

@@JM-gg8ko manufacturing left the US because the American Worker was forced to compete against people who makes pennies per hour in Mexico and Asia

@cyranova9627 2 года назад

@@mattkennedy6115 nah the union and demanding more more and more when the economy time hit hard. that why some us manufacture just left. and some just let japanese car come to US. dont believe me. just look at detroit. overpowerd union, lemon car. etc etc.

@richardprice5978 Год назад

@@cyranova9627 Chevy's board/CEO sabotaged the product ect also not the only company to do so chevy helped start Toyota and helped import finished car's to the 🇺🇸 without helping it probably would've failed and or just a support supplier for rubber parts aka thing's detroit can't cheaply make as it's not in the tropics

@jonasscheuer7639 2 года назад

As a german I can tell you that unions are a good thing, even in terms of productivity. The aspect that is bad for economic growth and entreprenurial freedom is state intervention.

@gabdongipark 2 года назад

Germany is a great example on how to communicate with employees

@fartexplosion4480 Год назад

Banning child labour and slavery is also bad for entrepreneurial freedom. Business owners run their employee's lives, from their paycheck to what hours they can and can't be forced to work to earn a living

@TRONMAGNUM2099 2 года назад

Proud IBEW member. Makes a huge difference. Don't anyone lie to you. Benefits and wages are far better working in a union shop.

@Mrmudbone_gaming 2 года назад

Im IBEW too. What local?

@frankfromupstateny3796 2 года назад

Unions must exist...otherwise...we're Mexico...and we're "close now". No American company gives "a rats ass" about its people.. and this is world-wide...not just in America or China. If you don't run your own affairs...your affairs are "run for you. Period.

@CMaldonado1690 2 года назад

Well, here in Mexico we have govt. Subsidized healthcare for workers, public universities and some really strong unions. In that front we are ahead the US, only being hampered by corruption and low budgets.

@fturla 2 года назад

Companies usually become abusive when there is no checks and balances. This isn't about workers doing something wrong when they create a union, it's about management creating an atmosphere that something is wrong with the company that promotes the formation of a union.

@paulreed7698 2 года назад

if big companies valued employees like they didn't their customers it would never happen.

@ledwysdelgado7304 2 года назад

I love when they workers family.

@sak_5 2 года назад

You know that if employees don’t feel valued, they can always look for another job? Unions just create a huge red-tape and corruption in terms of hiring/firing employees.

@ledwysdelgado7304 2 года назад

@@sak_5 you are right, I'm glad we aren't lacking well payed, interesting jobs.

@sak_5 2 года назад

@@ledwysdelgado7304 and if you still don’t find your dream job, you are always welcome to set up your own business, unless you live in North Korea, Cuba or the like.

@ledwysdelgado7304 2 года назад

@@sak_5 how much does it cost to setup a lemonade stand legally 🤔. I would really want to see what would happen if workers would just stop working from all industries, I would really want to see if these fearless leaders will stepup to the plate and still provide products and services.

@KamiInValhalla 2 года назад

Fact: if unions sucked, employers would not care.

@yahooboi261 2 года назад

100% they are scared, as they should be

@BeastOrGod 2 года назад

They have RECORD PROFITS every single year... Yet, their fundamental level workers, that produce the MOST value in the company, doesn't get pay raise... HOW?

@marceldwayne8491 2 года назад

It's called Management, lol. They got paid first; then, the crumbs went to the workers. Not every company does this thought.

@studmuffin1217 2 года назад

Investors decide whether or not its enough profit. If they don't produce adequate growth every single quarter then they are forced by the market to cut payroll. Its a perpetual cycle of loss for workers unionized or not.

@numenthehuman 2 года назад

Good for them man. I hope they can continue to make strides now that more union groups are being established.

@carolyn3172 Год назад

These greedy cry babies fighting for the right to bully their company into paying them far beyond their skills, driving up inflation do NOT deserve praise. I make a lot less than my age group, but I made decisions in my life without a gun to my head. IE quitting school at 16, I always planned to go back but didnt, I also planned to take some college courses, you don't need a grade 12 diploma where I come from, but I never did. Personal responsibility seems to be a foreign concept to many people these days.

@MAG320 2 года назад

Unionized jobs last longer & brings a low turnover rate. Also better wages. Otherwise they fire you over the smallest things.

@sak_5 2 года назад

It seems you don’t own a company. Imagine having one in a free market, yet having to go through a huge red-tape when trying to fire someone you consider is not contributing to your company.

@BarryPiper 2 года назад

Turnover is hugely expensive for companies. Why would a company want to fire somebody for a small thing?

@MAG320 2 года назад

@@BarryPiper ask McDonald's.

@MAG320 2 года назад

@@sak_5 i reference McDonald's.

@mikewhocheeseharry5292 2 года назад

@@BarryPiper Walmart used to have times when they “needed to clear the house” to save payroll, not sure if they still do this since it was years ago. But they would have management walk out anyone with D-days or tardy records, or whatever reason they can be used to justified. A couple months later the employee can apply for the job again and if they get hired, they’ll start all over again at based pay.

@kathachareonpong2001 2 года назад

As a designer, Macintosh or now Apple always have a place in my heart. Over pass 23 years I grow from love to right down hate the company, it conduct and products. The quality of product and operating system has so much rubbish on them. And now they don’t even treat their employee properly. I rather do my design on pen and paper with water color than buy new iMac from company that so greedy. I still use iPhone I pray there better brand in the future

@nynurse29 2 года назад

Nurses are next. We definitely need a union nationally. Putting patients at risk giving Nurses more than they can handle. Great job workers

@manicpepsicola3431 2 года назад

The fact nasty ass Cops have a union but nurses don't is disgusting to me

@vshah1010 9 месяцев назад

Could a union for nurses put patients at risk? What if they go on strike and people are dying in hospitals? I think that some professions, like those in charge of people's health and life, should not have a union.

@zztop8592 2 года назад

These CEO's are rich enough, they can afford it.

@charliejose7134 2 года назад

CEOs are greedy and will not give a dime to help. They just look out for themselves and their bonuses.

@robertsegovia4663 2 года назад

The corporate class has many methods to stop unionization. Thoughtful planning and perseverance will always win against them so please don't give up. It can change everything on this planet.

@BarryPiper 2 года назад

I worked in the CWA (mentioned in the video) for several years. I know unions were hugely transformative in the 1800s-1900s but some of my CWA coworkers were some of the laziest bunch of people I ever worked with. When I suggested that some of my peers not sleep at their desks or not cut out 15 minutes early because they might get reprimanded for it, their response was usually "what are they gonna do, we're in a union!" Not everyone was like this, of course, but a good 30-40% of the floor I worked on seemed to be like that. I often felt like I was doing most of the heavy listing. I know that, without unions, it would be just as bad if not worse in the other direction - as it seems to be now in many mega-companies. I just wish there were a happy middle ground.

@pudanielson1 2 года назад

Should've fired them if they were lazy, Union workers deserve hard working members. Also reform the union without destroying the union in the process

@xaza8uhitra4 2 года назад

you sound like a teachers pet obnoxious person . who tells people to not nap at their desk when they are tired ? you don’t know what people are going through .

@VMWashington25 2 года назад

People are no longer slaving for giant companies 🤷🏽‍♀️

@BarryPiper 2 года назад

@@pudanielson1 in a union shop it is really hard to fire workers for merely perceived issues like laziness. It takes many instances of policy violations and meetings with the shop steward for "coaching" to give the employee a chance to turn themselves around. Most management teams won't waste the time and effort, instead they'll shift work over to reliable workers. "Let the babies have their bottles; we know who the productive workers are".

@Peter-bx7ip 2 года назад

Eh, there are lazy NON-unionized workers out there.

@cnj420 2 года назад

I'm proud of these workers. More of us need to follow their lead.

@chrisk5437 2 года назад

As a proud union member in the airline industry, I’m shocked more people don’t do it. Our union (ALPA) is probably one of the best in the globe.

@_gungrave_6802 2 года назад

More people don't do it because often companies have grey area policies that allow them to easily fire people who attempt to unionize. In the US there aren't nearly as many protections for workers as there are in the rest of the world. In Europe for example a company can literally be put under investigation if they fire workers for trying to unionize where as in the US companies are effectively allowed to do it with hardly anyone in our judicial system batting an eye.

@taylorgagne380 2 года назад

Quite funny coming from a company valued at almost 3 trillion and with more than 600 billion in liquid cash(apple) but they make gross amounts of money and don't pay much taxes with the idea of paying work which they don't. Also, the most prosperous time in the united states also had the highest percentages of unions. I hope they continue the fight

@Lenny1337i 2 года назад

This is straight up wrong. Apple Paid 18bn in corporate taxes in 2021. apple has 48 Bn of cash and cash equivalents as as of 6/30. no idea where you get those numbers from.

@Sierra-208 2 года назад

1:23 hey that the Starbucks Fursuiter?

@ske-pho3049 2 года назад

I worked in a Union a few years ago. I was hoping to go from Lot Associate to Cashier and busted my ass everyday to show that I was the best person for the job. When a position opened up I expressed my interest to the manager and he said no. He acknowledged that I worked hard and had a good head on my shoulders. However, he stated that tenure takes priority in any promotion opportunity and NOT ability. I then put in my two weeks.

@bazz6490 2 года назад

And then what?

@ske-pho3049 2 года назад

@@bazz6490 I went and found a job that would move me up based on how well I worked and not on how long I been employed.

@bazz6490 2 года назад

@@ske-pho3049 cool. And what happen to the union you worked for did they regret not promoting you.?

@ske-pho3049 2 года назад

@@bazz6490 probably not, last I heard they still exist doing their thing.

@Novastar.SaberCombat 2 года назад

Exactly. You're ALWAYS replaceable. Always. All slaves are. 💪😎🤟

@RayanMADAO 2 года назад

Overeducated shouldn't be a thing

@marcbetancourt731 2 года назад

amazon & starbucks & all these workers deserve to make better money it’s ridiculous how hard they over work these people

@vshah1010 2 года назад

Sure, but I would not include Apple retail employees. They are being paid well, at least $20/hr.

@XOPOIIIO 2 года назад

Workers have a right of unionizing, and employers have a right to fight that.

@Hjernespreng 2 года назад

And anyone supporting the megacorps' fight is a gullible tool. Record profits year over year, yet wages keep being slashed and hours get longer, and enployment stability scarcer. These corporstions are bo different than feudal nobility. They won't give you good conditions and wages out of kindness.

@Novastar.SaberCombat 2 года назад

Of course. But employees have *WAY* less resources, lol! 😂🤣😂 That's why only the RICH can run for offices, political positions, etc. It's literally impossible (meaning: IMPOSSIBLE) for peons and "slaves" to run for office, let alone WIN an election. That's just how power and riches work. If you control the money, you control EVERYTHING. Rockefellers taught everyone that. 💪😎🤟 Bottom line: if you're poor, you're a nobody. A slave. A shadow. No one will know you exist, and no one will care when you die. It is what it is.

@XOPOIIIO 2 года назад

@@Hjernespreng Wages are growing and living conditions are improving. And even if it wasn't the case, they still have every right to do what their want with what they own. Nobody can harm you by doing what they want with what they own. You're mistaking harm with non-providing. You're mistaking something that was taken away from you with what in fact was just not given, and had no obligations to be given.

@unknownwelder6815 2 года назад

I don't buy apple products or go to Starbucks. However I am for a livable wage. However someone getting 27hr for coffee is crazy stupid.

@Tuck_Frump 2 года назад

I'm sorry how can google's contracters unionize? Google can just find other contractors.

@georgepoitras3502 2 года назад

That is what they HAVE been doing. Now that it is a Union shop they cannot just do that.

@mr.random8447 2 года назад

People who fight for unions have the worst mentality. You have a choice to work at these companies. Don't like them? Just leave. Not happy with your pay? Improve your skillset. A victim mindset with external locus of control. Can't get another job? Well, maybe you should be thankful you have one. Most entitled group of people. They should have internal locus of control, put the blame on yourself for having a low wage job since you didn't invest any time in higher skills.

@mr.random8447 2 года назад

@Ransom's Rookery Employees consciously agree to work at a company. Nobody holding a gun to your head.

@woodchuck003 2 года назад

The one guy at the beginning is unknowingly 100% correct. The people who are working at these stores that are unionizing are over educated (and arguably unneedingly educated). Go to any fast food restaurant you're going to find more cash registers mean by robots than you are people. Starbucks and Apple is not actually a progressive company's, they are just trying to pander towards a demographic that they believe are willing to overpay for their products. The only reason these companies have not already in place more of their employees with robots is because their corporate boards have decided the high cost for a human workforce our negligible when you account for the clientele it allows them to pander to. These employees are simply adding to the numerous reasons to get rid of them. Also a lot of the Starbucks locations that have closed down and have cited numerous health problems such as drug use in the bathroom. A problem that only occurred because the corporate board decided to pander towards a progressive clientele a few years ago. I personally no longer go to Starbucks due to their overpriced coffee and the decrease in cleanliness of their stores. Something tells me that the people who want to unionize are not going to be the people who believe their stores will look better if they kick out the homeless people.

@D_Webb 2 года назад

People don’t want robots. They don’t even want to talk on the phone when it comes to tech. Most want hands on help with purchases and trouble shooting. Apple couldn’t replace the people in store with “robots” even if they wanted to.

@__taylor__ 2 года назад

You have a good point, but you’re underestimating the work that these employees do if you think they’re replaceable by robots. You are correct on the front that a significant portion of these positions are replaceable: taking orders at the drive-thru, accepting payment at the cash register, selling a customer an iPad, etc. However, things like preparing a blended drink, troubleshooting a 2 hour technical problem, handling a warranty claim and convincing a customer to make a purchase cannot fully be replaced by robots. But yes, I do see major restructuring away from brick & mortar within these companies if unions gain more appeal. Personally, I think this should be a signal for Starbucks to make big company changes and possibly even rebrand, because their prominence in the coffee space is fading (at least I feel like it is as a mid-twenties coffee drinker lol, and I even used to work there in my late teens). I don’t see younger generations finding as much excitement in the brand as mine did. It’s evolved to have a very corporate feel, plus the product is just bad. Apple will be fine though. This may sound crazy, but I can picture Apple entering the ‘place to gather / coffee’ market that Starbucks is in. Their last retail head was pushing for something similar with ‘Today at Apple.’

@woodchuck003 2 года назад

@@D_Webb not necessarily robots what you do is you call it self-service and it's a luxury. So you know how you go to the supermarket and you grab a cart so that you can go and pick items off the shelves. So until Piggly wiggly opened that used to be something the store employees would do for you. Not only did his move reduce the number of employees required but they also sold it as a service as where you could personally choose which vegetables and fruits you buy. Starbucks could easily do this they only need about one or two people to make the drinks. Even then they figured out how to replace those humans with vending machines in both Italy and Japan.

@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou 2 года назад

@@D_Webb Yes, they do. Whilst not autonomous, self checkout has become the norm. Having an app or program to input your own order is quickly becoming a standard, and a series of machines can do pretty much anything and everything in a Starbucks without the necessity of human intervention. Would you even necessarily be aware that machines did the work; synthetic software voices were quite realistic with some moderate tweaks more than 15 years ago? If you were to hear a relatively generic voice calling out your name whilst your order is sitting on the counter, it's doubtful that you would ever be able to tell how much an actual human was involved in the entire process. Automation has been happening incrementally since the joints originally opened. You are simply unaware of most processes. Deep fat fried food can nearly go from start to finish these days. Robots are rarely in humanoid form. There are even full robot bands programmed to play exactly what is heard on an album. Live music will one day be maybe a singer with robots performing with real instruments on-site.

@RideRedRacer 2 года назад

My union changed my life. They treat me very well

@liberoAquila 2 года назад

In U.S. unions and management are considered adversarial, in Sweden they are partners who work together.

@SkypowerwithKarl 2 года назад

My dad said that if the employees wanted a union, that’s fine, but the next day he’d close the doors and auction everything. They did unionize, because they thought he was bluffing. Before everyone went home he handed out the final checks with vacation pay due to everyone. One week later all debts paid, taxes paid, W2’s sent, some orders shipped, those not shipped were reimbursed, equipment gone, not even a working phone number, there was nothing left of the business, it vanished. He started a totally new business six months later, the only thing that was the same was him. I asked if he would do it again. He said in a heartbeat, as many times as it takes. He was known to pay the best and have the best benefits in the valley. The company also produced the highest quality components.

@LuisPG92 2 года назад

There are two types of people. The one who create jobs and the ones who take those jobs. It’s easy to unionize and say pay me more because I think I deserve so. It’s not easy to create a business, start from scratch and take risks.

@justinlassiter7671 2 года назад

@@LuisPG92 But these people live in the same economic system as the business owners do however the owners seem to have more "life". It's absolutely not fair or just to pay them too little (despite their function/role in the business) in a system that requires the total sum of their income to get by which in turn leaves them bound to the company to survive. Wages and income have not kept up with costs of living at all, especially in housing.

@amazon4716 2 года назад

I see future cutbacks.... Outsourcing. Yep it is possible. 3rd party... companies, etc. There is always a way around the union issues... Look at the past... manufacturing moved to other nations.

@el5880 2 года назад

All power to the workers!

@el5880 2 года назад

@@Carlos_Alcaraz keep dreaming.

@ocampbell1954 2 года назад

@@el5880 lol keep dreaming. It's already happening. AI are coming next.

@el5880 2 года назад

@@ocampbell1954 no it hasn’t and it never will.

@ocampbell1954 2 года назад

@@el5880 lol at it hasn't. Your cellphone has AI. Tesla has AI in it's FSD. They're also building robots. What rock are you living under?

@el5880 2 года назад

@@ocampbell1954 workers built the iPhone. Keep dreaming.

@dkh4487 2 года назад

It would be huge if Unions get donations of those companies shares large enough to have a seat in the BOD. That would be a game changer because Unions can vote C Suites golden compensation packages.

@el5880 2 года назад

@@Carlos_Alcaraz lol

@zmaskillz9702 2 года назад

👏👏👏👏👏The giant company that really needs a union is Walmart!!👏👏👏👏

@BeaverOwl Год назад

Good job unionizing guys! 🎉😊 best wishes from Canada!

@slickrick2420 2 года назад

Congratulations from Sweden! Strong unions mean a strong working class.

@sesaba 2 года назад

That's really wrong ... Have you heard about Detroit ?

@applehead5587 2 года назад

Same, Greetings from Germany. Unions are very important for the workers here!

@JY-lg6ee 2 года назад

Do you know how poor those European countries are ??

@slickrick2420 2 года назад

@@sesaba The Detroit auto-industry failed due to lack of demand as the Japanese made better cars, it wasn't due to unions.

@slickrick2420 2 года назад

@@JY-lg6ee Lmfao Sweden and Germany has a far higher living standard than the U.S. Turn off Fox News and see reality.

@jiaweichew3370 2 года назад

I can guarantee that a united employee representation will be far better than any system where there is none. Plus governments should make it illegal for employers to have even a voice in anything and should be subjected to the mercy of their employees including their shareholders. Which means the term cutting cost would be outright made illegal without a very strong legitimate argument with at least 10 pages of facts. On top of that, instead of a centralized target I prefer if each store can independently set their own targets made by the employees as it makes it slightly more enjoyable and gives employees a more lighthearted competitive streak. Also, by allowing employees more power they can actually give suggestions to make businesses more efficient as a lot of things are still either inefficient or require a lot of manual repetition work.

@cristianion2056 Год назад

So you want to be a boss one Someone ele money

@joeking433 2 года назад

I'm glad to see unions making a comeback. That's what made the middle class.

@TMM-N 2 года назад

One of the reason why manufacturers moved to asia due to unions pushing wages up

@joeking433 2 года назад

@@TMM-N Not unions, just higher wages! Companies are always looking for a country with cheaper labor. They don't give a flying F about countries, just profits. They go from the US to Mexico to Taiwan to Korea to Indonesia to Vietnam to China always running to another country when the workers want more money. None of those countries had unions but the wages naturally rise with the wealth of the population. I'm into guitars and the guitar market started in the US, then moved to Japan. Then Japan got too expensive so the companies went to Korea. Then the Korean standard of living went up and the workers started making more money so the companies went to China where it was cheaper. Now wages and the standard of living are getting higher in China and they will probably try to find a cheaper country, LOL! It's a nasty, nasty strategy. And it had nothing to do with unions.

@edwinbrace4681 2 года назад

Unions in theory support employees !

@myanriles3185 2 года назад

Just having a union doesnt mean anything, hold off on celebrating until you have a contract lol

@Jorge-sy4bp 2 года назад

I really hope all that woke greedy corporations get recked by unions.

@BarryPiper 2 года назад

What happens to the workers when the union wrecks their company?

@ripvanrevs 2 года назад

They eventually will. Unions are like comm unism. Eventually there is no incentive to be productive and the companies are no longer able to make a profit with all unproductive workers. Unions are also notorious for enriching those in power of the unions and caring very little for the average worker.

@justincoleman7856 2 года назад

I mean it makes sense for those big name companies to fight back because they don't want to lose more money. However seeing as how Apple loves to charge $1k for each of their iPhones as well as iMacs/Macbooks, they should in turn offer higher wages, especially seeing as how their market cap is well over $1 trillion. On the flip side, each of these individuals who are fighting to unionize could choose a different career path, especially those at Amazon. However, when you choose to battle with a company who cares more about profit than working with a union company, then you only have yourself to blame for wanting to start the fight in the first place. This is why I choose not to support Starbucks, Apple or Amazon (still trying to find ways to not support Google either).

@boydseabiscuit2635 2 года назад

how you are valued is how hard you are to replace. that's why companies i interview now ask what i want to do instead of what i know to do.

@auro1986 2 года назад

when all the work is outsourced to china and other asian or eurasian countries where they die working, ask why not

@Brendan.Day76 2 года назад

That round building is an eyesore

@soumen208 2 года назад

Big corporates like " YOU WANT TO DO UNION, FINE. WE WILL FORCE THE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE LAWS TO SUPRESS UNIONISATION." Good Luck

@rayray2001111 2 года назад

Now we know why apple won’t even dream about building iPhones in the US, makes sense now

@akyhne 2 года назад

Most countries have unions.

@mikewhocheeseharry5292 2 года назад

umm… it’s been known major companies, not just Apple, have manufacturing and production facilities in countries that cost less for employee wages and taxes.

@amdusa77 2 года назад

They will once everything is automated. Selling iPhones made in the US must cost like 5k $

@Dc-sl3up 2 года назад

All union workers required to use 50% wage to buy a company stocks.

@thomasschaefer9312 2 года назад

Artificial intelligence and Automation will make all of this a waste of time.

@ayushpratapsingh3843 2 года назад

Amen!!

@Mrmudbone_gaming 2 года назад

IBEW org. 1891 Im local 595. Glad they’re union brothers and sisters now.

@drinkingpoolwater 2 года назад

28 an hour to work at an apple store lol. its literally a retail job. thats an insult to people who make 20 an hour working in a factory busting their butt.

@ledwysdelgado7304 2 года назад

They should unionize.

@farirn642 2 года назад

@@ledwysdelgado7304 I was about to type this too!

@Jorge-sy4bp 2 года назад

Unions assume they are against the f company, and that's more stupid than ariana grande.

@MegaMijit 2 года назад

SUPPORT UNIONIZING!!!

@AHFAN11 2 года назад

every company that was unionizing was a surprise EXCEPT FOR Activision-Blizzard. it was only a matter of time.

@markket1154 2 года назад

Union member numbers have been steadily decreasing in this country because all the manufacturing jobs have been shipped to Mexico, and the ones that still remain here are done by robotics. A car manufacturing plant used to have 2000 employees all Union, now there's 3 to 400 employees and it's all automated.

@akyhne 2 года назад

"Approximately 90% of Mexican production workers in industrial enterprises that employ at least twenty-five employees are unionized."

@markket1154 2 года назад

@@akyhne We were talking about Union workers in the USA not in Mexico

@akyhne 2 года назад

@@markket1154 Yeah, but your argument is, that the jobs goes to Mexico, because of unions in the US. I'm just pointing out, that they have unions in Mexico as well. So that's not the reason.

@markket1154 2 года назад

@@akyhne The reason they sent the jobs to Mexico's goes to laborate down there's cheaper

@boundless1494 2 года назад

@@akyhne That's what you call critical thinking skills. 👏👏👏

@ocean1233 Год назад

CHEERS TO UNIONS!!!! ALL workers should appreciate the IMPORTANCE of protecting themselves. Without the majority of workers there would be NO money for rich CEOs and many others. YOU ARE THE MAIN PARTY not the "third party" & MUST Continue to DEMAND your Just Due $$$$$$$

@rudyrudelaemmerhirt 2 года назад

As a shareholder of all of these companies I strongly support unionization for all of these companies and any that are large enough to pay for union-busting. If your big enough to afford those efforts you can come to the table and negotiate.

@JY-lg6ee 2 года назад

Big enough ?? Do you know how many Starbuck Stores had closed and shut down in the past 10 years ??

@markcampbell7577 2 года назад

A real union wage is a greater than a living. Why unions are essential to survival and living.

@joecole7122 Год назад

Every time a business unionizes it tends to go downhill. I guarantee Starbucks will not be able to compete with a private coffee house selling cheaper coffee. I'm from Michigan. The unionized auto companies had a terrible time competing with foreign auto companies.

@windmillacres679 2 года назад

How the hell is ANYONE at a Starbucks a "necessary" worker? The world stops turning is certain people don't get their coffee?

@stainlesssteellemming3885 2 года назад

Yeah - that statement cost her 90% of her credibility with me. Starbucks (or frankly any coffee, hot drink, or lunch you don't make at home before leaving for the day) is a luxury item.

@Donkeyearsa 2 года назад

I wonder after a few years how many of these retail stores will vote to dump the union. The reason that union membership has been dropping is high union fees and the unions not giving a damn about the avenge union member. I remember back decades ago most of the union grocery stores in the state went on strike do to an increase of $5 to their health care copay. What shocked me was when I learned that most grocery store workers make minimum wage or close to it and still have to pay very high union fees. The strike lasted a good part of a year and in the end the average worker was screwed over, but the union bosses made out like a bandit. The grocery stores held their ground because as long as the strike kept going they did not have to deal with union BS as they had plenty of people that where more than happy to cross the union line to have a job. I am a truck driver and I have talked to old timer truck drivers who are members of the Teamsters union. Without an exception every one of them told me if that they were not so heavily invested in the union for their retirement, they would tell the union where it could go and what it could do when it gets there. If they crossed the union line and quite working for the union, they would lose most if not all of their retirement pension. They told me to stay away from the teamsters as once they got you in their clutches, they will never let you go. They made it sound as if you were joining the Mob.

@SuperFang1 2 года назад

Teamsters is a haven compared to most non unionized places I've worked. They provided a decent wage, retirement, safe working space, multiple mandatory breaks, job security, medical, and good leadership(bosses). My coworker on the other hand was worked like a mule since he wasn't part of the union.

@Donkeyearsa 2 года назад

@@SuperFang1 I have delt with union shops as a truck driver. Hell would freeze over before I would join a union.

@SuperFang1 2 года назад

@@Donkeyearsa Im sure companies and their Union busting lawyers would love you.

@nakkalinaani6464 2 года назад

Good for you guys!

@Q-gf8vb Год назад

They want to be paid more while they work for a business that sells a $10 coffee. LOL

@velox__ Год назад

Who do you think gets the lion's share of that 10$? certainly isnt the workers right now.

@tenshi.kurama 2 года назад

If your company is big enough it should be auto union Small companies wouldn't be able to afford to like mom and pop stores but large companies are pocketing more and more profit while pushing their employees to the wayside

@ESSARGEE 2 года назад

CNBC employees next to unionize???

@BTrain-is8ch 2 года назад

Unions are having a moment because people these days think relatively complex and nuanced issues have simplistic straight forward solutions. They'll unionize, they won't suddenly make 50% more money, the union will be taking a cut of the 3% bump in total comp they did get, and the moment will be over. At some point people will realize that standing up for yourself isn't something you can outsource.

@BTrain-is8ch 2 года назад

@@pychang21 If by union buster you mean person that supports right to work laws that don't force people to become members of a union if they don't want to then guilty as charged.

@schnitzelsemmel 2 года назад

You cant outsource standing up for yourself. But thats not what a union is. A union has more bargaining power than any individual. You wouldnt wanna sue Volkswagen individually if theres a class action law suits. Yes, the Union will cost you $100 a month, but as said in the video, youll gonna be earning up to $200 more a week

@terriesmith2616 2 года назад

@@schnitzelsemmel Most companies will simply close their stores. Starbucks has already closed 16 stores and all of these employees who voted to unionized lost their jobs. Closed stores = no jobs. Most companies will simply move their businesses to a different location, overseas, or automations. Unionizing will simply push companies to add robots/automation at a more faster rate.

@Peter-bx7ip 2 года назад

@@terriesmith2616 the point is to go after the Starbucks leadership that is closing the stores… not the union members

@skankhunt3624 2 года назад

@@BTrain-is8ch yep, he's accurate then and you admit it, you're a union buster. Right to work laws, 🤣🤣🤣😂 what a joke. Good luck simping for the elites.

@dkim0496 2 года назад

Way back, I voluntarily did not join the union. I was the first one out of 20,000 employees to not join. They came threatening me saying that they will have me terminated if I didnt join. Also said that I would not get any of the bargained health benefits and such. Obviously I knew that was false. My benefits and pay were the same, obviously, and quickly after, the same union rep is still doing the same thing. Not working and just floating around trying to seem important. I focused on myself and my career growth instead of the nonsense. Union rep was still making $17 an hour and my pay became $90K within 1 year of employment. We started off the same, but mentally at a different place with different goals and ambitions. Three years after, I came across the same shop steward and he was still doing the same thing while complaining how the pay is unfair. Same thing as in avoiding his actual duties and avoiding anything that will have him go above and beyond. His pay increased to whatever the union dictated as an annual percentage increase but still around $18 - $19 an hour. My pay at that point was about $115K and bought a house. Anyway all this happened a long time ago but the moral of the story is to always work hard to improve yourself, by yourself. Dont go in expecting to be entitled to more than what you are already contributing on a dollar basis individually. Also, unions should thoroughly vet the members they decided to make shop stewards...because thats what initially turned me off.

@coconuvr 2 года назад

Robots can't unionize

@tomaxxamot2016 2 года назад

Record profits plus bailouts and rise in cost of living and salaries that are not keeping up with these cost , yes I am for union ,plus the micromanaging and micro tracking that these companies are employing

@jadenpark7943 2 года назад

record profits is a bad thing because?

@iliatebenkov473 2 года назад

@@jadenpark7943 they didn't say profits are bad, they said that while profits are at an all time high, workers don't get their fair share.

@jadenpark7943 2 года назад

@@iliatebenkov473 they dont? they were begging for $15 an hour for years! Now it's way over $17 most jobs , yet the leftist new-Green-Dream skillless activist turds keep on crying. Entitled "Everything should be free" commies

@JohnnyAmerique 2 года назад

@@jadenpark7943 Rising profits which come from finding better ways to do things and rising productivity are a good thing. Rising profits which come from declining real wages is just robbing Peter to pay Paul - or, more precisely, robbing the people who do the work to pay the people who don’t.

@jadenpark7943 2 года назад

@@JohnnyAmerique u didnt read my comment? we already gave them fair wage. they want more n more , entitledments keep sucking shareholders blood

@stevenboddy9219 2 года назад

Yeah because we all know baristas and fast food workers deserve 20 an hour. LOL these jobs weren't created for a life time. these jobs are for highschoolers to get a taste of the real world and old retired bored people. you're not supposed to support a family by working at places like these, its absolutely ridiculous. you dont deserve 20 an hour and top notch benefits

@scifirealism5943 2 года назад

Then women don't deserve to vote.

@logicalthinkersolisten3199 2 года назад

Lfyt amd Uber need a Union badly. Those drivers are getting exploited to the max.

@markcampbell7577 2 года назад

Not even a child should be paid less than a living local commute which is at least 4 times the rent for one bedroom apartment local commute. The normal legal minimum wage act enforced correctly locally by police and welfare departments is missing.

@aurelius7092 2 года назад

thats awesom

@iali00 2 года назад

$5 for a latte even before this union stuff. Heck yeah, I’m glad the workers are unionizing at Starbucks. They need to share the success with workers.

@ripvanrevs 2 года назад

They will be $8 with unionized labor and their sales will plummet as unions keep demanding higher and higher wages. How much of those higher wages will go into union DUES?

@tranger4579 2 года назад

@@ripvanrevs no they won't.

@meai1978 2 года назад

Tech company become unionize is like telling the government to regulate your company, Union is good but it will ruin the competitiveness of the employees, that drive the innovation!

@skapunkoialternativeliving6522 2 года назад

The thing is people are waking up people are knowing their self worth before they didn't so much but now things are changing because people want to live a decent life..

@InventaChris 2 года назад

Cool. Now they're going to raise prices.

@desathy5257 2 года назад

Unions are only good if you're In a good union. Worked within unionized Albertsons stores for 7 years of my life, only time I ever got raises were when the city or state voted for a higher minimum wage. On top of earning basically minimum wage, I had union dues taken out of my paychecks putting me in the extreme poverty income bracket. Yea, they give Health insurance, but it's vestigial as it basically covered nothing, not even antiviral treatment for hepc/hiv when I got stuck by a used syringe AT WORK. The environment also rewarded the lazy and punished hard workers as the hard workers were expected to take on more tasks while earning the same paycheck as someone that sits around on their phone. The union put on the facade that they cared, while not listening to employee concerns, only fought for wage increases for the highest income employees and the union committee members visited stores in luxry cars to hand out pins to workers that eat from the food bank and struggle to afford basic housing.

@darkwoodmovies 2 года назад

Unions aren't necessarily always great. Sometimes they take too much of the workers' pay for nothing in return, and way too often they prevent poor performers from being rightfully fired. It's also a bureaucratic nightmare, and it takes forever to get any changes implemented, vs. a company just increasing benefits on a whim. Also those representatives and bureaucrats don't push papers around for free. But Unions shouldn't be necessary, it's our failed government's job to regulate corporations and protect workers.

@kellyodowd3949 Год назад

This is why those companies are saying they are having a highering freeze, cutting back on projects, etc and claiming it to be because of the economy.... Sounds like passive aggressive economic bullying

@trancemutator5393 2 года назад

I don’t see why both Starbucks and Apple both pay good wages and have good benefits. Having worked a union shop, I’ll say won’t work a union shop.

@crippleguy415 2 года назад

Good for those workers 👍🏻. People deserve a fair wage and benefits . Union busters are the real hooligans . God bless Jimmy Hoffa. Sr. And Junior 👍🏻🇺🇸

@Atlanta83 2 года назад

Congratulation guys

@projection-75-emulation 2 года назад

in 2021 apple made 150 billion in profit. if apple took half of that (75 billion) and evenly distributed the half to each of their 2.4 million $20/hr workers, each would be making an extra $31,250 every year, raising their yearly salary to $72,850 (instead of $41,600). $72,850/year is $37.36 per hour. even after all of that, with the other $75 billion still remaining, apple still has an surplus equal to the combined profits of ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, and BP combined.

@scifirealism5943 2 года назад

That's so much money.....

@chaddepew5831 2 года назад

Unions are good at times and bad at times. They can bring better work conditions and wages. They can also hurt business to the point that it hurts the employees. It can also get so big that it hurts it's own members and limit their ability to find new jobs within the same industry. I have a friend that is in a metal worker's union and he they won't let him work at many businesses and he can't get a job. So in short I'm not for or against them they have their place but have some problems as well.

@djp1234 2 года назад

Workers need to know that THEY produce all the value for the company, not some CEO mascot that collects millions in bonuses every year.

@markcampbell7577 2 года назад

Nobody works for less than a living local,. The absolute legal minimum wage act is 4 times the rent for one bedroom apartment local commute. The unions used to be twice minimum wage because they were families not children.

@Heresheis0818 2 года назад

Thank you Bird

@ignaciokairuz 2 года назад

"The reason why we joined Starbucks is because of its progressive value" dude... You know that's crap. You joined Starbucks because you need to eat and pay your rent. If you could choose a better place you would do it. You're speculating the same way that companies does... The same way that everybody does... I think Unionizing is the same as Companies fixing prices... It's kind of violent. I prefer to think that in a really free economy that wouldn't be something to worry about because competition would destroy speculators that don't take care either of their employees nor the customers. Nowadays, especially since Microsoft 1998 supreme court case, big companies know that , Instead of an unregulated market, a much more regulated one is better for them... So that small competitors never grow :(

@MOBMJ 2 года назад

I am still against unions and don’t like the idea of unionizing considering the fact that not everyone wants to be in a union and that you still have to pay union dues whether you like to or not. I am against the fact though that I think the minimum wage is criminal and that no one should be paid minimum wage and it should be pegged to living expenses and inflation. Majority of Americans close to like 80% or 90% I think it is work for, big corporations McDonald’s, Starbucks, Target, Walmart, Home Depot, Fortune 500 companies. These companies make billions I hate when they come out and say oh we can’t afford it to pay you more. Don’t give us that, you can afford to pay us Waymore when the CEOs of these companies get paid anymore from 400X to 500X The pay of a normal worker. So having said all that. I am and I am not against unionizing I just don’t like to think about it as you are forced to be in a union if we agree and you are forced to pay the dues, yes even if the pay is high you could be able to afford paying $100 a month or per paycheck for dues, but everyone has different expenses and lifestyles no matter how much extra the pay is increased to some people could still not afford it it’s all about personal finance and budgeting. I do agree that minimum wage is criminal and that it should never be the minimum of one and employer chooses to pay their employees.

@justahermit1172 2 года назад

What? You only join the union if you sign up. If you don't sign up, you don't have to pay anything.

@brucesinvestingseries8572 2 года назад

I can't wait to see those stores gets closed and these clowns lose their jobs.

@RockyC89 2 года назад

Jimmy Hoffa would be proud.

@jeremypearson6852 2 года назад

Unions were good when children were being sent down the mines and some factory workers were working in dangerous conditions. Frankly, when a company can call a strike at the drop of a hat nobody wins. Also, union members are much more difficult to terminate even if they are unsatisfactory. Even Elon Musk recognizes that.