Current Events > Starbucks CEO: companies are being "assaulted" by unions

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/akv9kp/starbucks-union-howard-schultz

Won't someone think of the ceos

I took us all the way today, Schultz said. We didnt get here by having a union.

Translation, "Look how rich I've gotten, why do I care what happens to you."

Did he just make a holocaust comparison to Unions?

Akagami_Shanks posted...

Did he just make a holocaust comparison to Unions?

he did at least compare himself to saving holocaust victims

White straight male CEOs are the most oppressed group in America

Change my mind

So apparently wanting a livable wage makes you a Nazi.

modern slavemasters.

Even before he returned as interim CEO, Schultz met with employees in Buffalo who were attempting to unionize, during which he recalled a conversation with a rabbi who told him concentration camp prisoners during the Holocaust shared their blankets with other people who didnt have them. So much of that story is threaded into what we have tried to do at Starbucks is share our blanket, Schultz told attendees.

Many years ago, Starbucks was actually an example of an employer being relatively good to their employees. Over the past 10ish years they've whittled that down to where they are today. Let the union protect you from yourself, Starbucks CEO.

1st they came after the CEOs and I said nothing

because I was cheering

Fuck Starbucks I don't drink their shitty coffee

these brands would much rather shut down stores and warehouses than suffer a single union to exist

Maybe he should start a CEO union

Remember when this walking bag of shit wanted to be President?

Akagami_Shanks posted...

Did he just make a holocaust comparison to Unions?

He's fond of those metaphors
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/09/business/howard-schultz-starbucks/index.html

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz told a story about the Holocaust to promote the company's benefits to a group of employees in a meeting this past weekend.
Schultz, who is Jewish, said a rabbi in Israel told him about the experiences of prisoners at concentration camps in Poland: They were only given a few blankets and had to share.
"Not everyone, but most people shared their blanket with five other people," said Schultz. "So much of that story is threaded into what we've tried to do at Starbucks -- is share our blanket."
Schultz shared the story with employees in the Buffalo area Saturday. He said it illustrates Starbucks' commitment to morality, honor and humanity. He has told the story before, including during a 2016 shareholders meeting. His comments on Saturday were posted on a video on Starbucks' YouTube page.

Reactions to his analogy have been wide-ranging. Holocaust prisoners' selflessness while facing death isn't a direct parallel to a Fortune 500 company providing benefits to its employees.
"Felt like it wasn't a very appropriate analogy," a Starbucks employee in attendance told the New York Times. The Forward, a Jewish publication, called the remarks "mystifying."

Mearcstapa posted...

Remember when this walking bag of shit wanted to be President?

Supposedly Hillary was ready to make him labor secretary

Also:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ny7x/starbucks-ceo-announces-nfts-to-workers-amid-union-drive

What a piece of ass

Capitalism is a disease

Fair pay is theft to the capital owner class.

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This makes me curious what kind of sales they do in other countries. Is the whole "coffee culture" a US thing only? You know, every woman above 15 needs to stop by Dukin or Starbucks for an 8 dollar coffee at least once a day.

Unions = bad

Drug syringes in restrooms = good

Dumbass GQPers: "I'm so oppressed! This is basically the Holocaust!"

Dumbass CEOs: "I didn't know we could do that...!"

Wah wah we can't exploit our workers

Won't someone please think of the poor CEOs!

Howard Schultz is worth 4 Billion dollars, give me a fucking break.

The greed of these CEOs knows no bounds.

Good

Raises are literally hate crimes.

"Hey, unions don't work and that's why we invest so much money into convincing you that they don't work, because they don't! So don't go joining that union! Please?"

"here's why im a fan of these union busting billionaires."

Starbucks has been firing the workers leading organizing efforts in several cities - which is illegal, to be clear
https://twitter.com/noamscheiber/status/1511329721828708354?t=GOYmVdotp667-99TsBf7hg&s=19

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Many years ago, Starbucks was actually an example of an employer being relatively good to their employees. Over the past 10ish years they've whittled that down to where they are today. Let the union protect you from yourself, Starbucks CEO.

That's just the upstart lifecycle.

Taharqa_ posted...

Howard Schultz is worth 4 Billion dollars, give me a fucking break.

The greed of these CEOs knows no bounds.

Don't remember where I read this from but it rings true.

"You can get rich through hard work and maybe a bit of luck. But you don't become filthy rich without oppressing and exploiting others."

St0rmFury posted...

Don't remember where I read this from but it rings true.

"You can get rich through hard work and maybe a bit of luck. But you don't become filthy rich without oppressing and exploiting others."

yup