Cornell University Area Starbucks -- An Update On The Three, Now Two Union Shops: One Closest To Campus Shuttered, By Company.

Whether one thinks an overflowing grease trap (as an environmentally unfriendly matter) is worthy of a one day strike by the union at a given Starbucks shop. . . is immaterial.

What is completely novel in the last 75 or so years. . . is that such a headline appears, at all. This is vast evidence of large public company/corporate. . . mis-calculations (just as at Amazon and Google). The regular team-mates' concerns could certainly have been handled far short of unionization. They. Just. Weren't. And now these jokers will ride the whirlwind (per NPR):

. . .The coffee giant gave the employees at the College Ave. location near Cornell University a one-week notice of the closure, the union says, with the store slated to permanently close on June 10.

The coffee giant has said the decision to close the store was unrelated to the unionization effort. The store was one of three Starbucks locations in Ithaca that voted to unionize on April 8. . . .

"This is clearly retaliation for our small grasps at dignity as workers, but our strike showed them what power we have," Benjamin South, an employee at the College Ave. location, said in a statement.

A union committee says it's filing an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging that Starbucks is closing the store to retaliate against worker activities that are protected by labor laws. . . .

Onward. . . the sea really has changed here (thus the Jolly Roger style image in my graphic at upper right -- good on ya', Capt. Jack Sparrow!). Regardless of whether one believes all the union alleges, the fact that it is even happening (unionization) -- is new, to the last 70-some years, in America. And it finds me. . . grinning.

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