Around 200 workers, union members and other supporters gathered at Cal Anderson Park to rally around Starbucks employees, who are starting union drives around the United States. FOX13
Capitol HillLiz Duran says she works at the Starbucks Reserve Roastery, where a vote just occurred. She's hoping to inspire others in their efforts to unionize as well. "It was something that we have been working on for a couple months," said Duran.
"Thursday we finally had the count for our union vote by mail, so we won the election. It was super exciting.""Thankfully for us, we didn’t deal with as bad as some of the things other people dealt with. Some of the speakers here, they’ve been fired, they’ve been intimidated," she said. "We had the Seattle Roastery, which is one of the three roasteries and one of the flagships of Starbucks corporation," said Councilmember Kshama Sawant, Council District 3. "The workers there successfully unionized and that comes after the Broadway, Denny store." Councilmember Sawant says workers are demanding a living wage adjusted for inflation, free health care, debit card tipping, secure scheduling and full staffing. "After decades of being decimated, being pushed down, and [the] reduction of union numbers, suddenly you have a young generation rejecting the status quo," said Sawant.Two Starbucks stores in Seattle went on strike Friday morning, protesting unfair labor practices and union busting tactics being used against employees. Jesse Mason says he was trying to organize a union of Verizon workers in the Seattle area. He says he was fired. in quite some time, when workers at the Lynnwood Everett stores decided to unionize, so I was just trying to continue that into stores and Shoreline," he said. "I think that Democracy isn’t just something that just happens in November. It is something we need to practice every day of our lives and democracy in the workplace means unions," said Luke Carpenter, a supporter of unionizing. "It’s an overall really important thing for people to be able to secure protection, secure wages," said Ty Underwood, another supporter of the workers.
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