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Feb 21 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: Starbucks has fired one of the leading @SBWorkersUnited union organizers in Buffalo.

Cassie Fleischer worked at Starbucks for five years. She helped Elmwood become the first unionized store in company history and is on the union's bargaining committee.
More Perfect Union reported on Friday that Starbucks was attempting to use scheduling policy changes to force union leaders in Buffalo out of their jobs.

At the time, a Starbucks rep denied that any workers would be fired over the changes.

More here: perfectunion.us/starbucks-atte…
From Cassie's public FB post:

"This is not the company I signed on to in 2017 and this just further proves that we need a union in our stores. Starbucks is making a big mistake and I will be spending this newfound time supporting my partners through the union in any way I can."
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Feb 18
EXCLUSIVE: Starbucks is attempting to force out the union leaders at its Buffalo stores.

Workers at the first unionized Starbucks say the company is pushing unprecedented schedule changes that would mean they "don't fit the needs of the business."

perfectunion.us/starbucks-atte…
Last fall, Starbucks flooded stores with new hires, then cut the hours of union supporters.

That forced some workers to get second jobs to survive.

Now, Starbucks is demanding more availability than those workers can give, setting requirements that had never existed before.
One worker got a second job after her hours were severely cut. When she told her boss about the new job, he congratulated her and said it wasn’t a problem.

A few days later, her store union went public. She was the main organizer.

Suddenly, her new job was a problem.
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Feb 16
Private equity company Roark Capital controls 650K U.S. fast food workers.

Workers told us how the company makes millions by screwing over workers.

That shouldn’t be a surprise — the company is named after one of the most narcissistic characters in literature.
Roark Capital’s namesake is Howard Roark, the protagonist of Ayn Rand’s novel “The Fountainhead.”

Roark, an architect, is cemented in his individualism no matter what the cost.

For Roark Capital, those costs fall on their workers in the form of low wages and overwork.
CEO Neal Aronson testified to his dedication to the character in an interview with SBOnline:

“He always did what he genuinely believed was right and ...had the discipline and fortitude to stick with it even when it put him at odds with the popular people or the latest trends.”
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Jan 13
EXCLUSIVE: A leaked internal memo reveals that @Kroger executives were told in 2018 that most of the company’s workers live in poverty and rely on food stamps and other public aid to survive as a result of the company’s low pay.

perfectunion.us/exclusive-krog…
The presentation, titled “State of the Associate", found that “Most employees are considered to be living in poverty and need State Aid as in food stamps, free school lunch, etc. just to get by."

Kroger made $4 billion in profit in 2020 and projects an increase for 2021.
The report quotes an unnamed @Kroger worker from an internal survey:

“Something is wrong when the people who are actually making this company profitable are the ones deepest in poverty... I literally work at a grocery store and can’t afford to eat regularly."
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Jan 13
UPDATE: @SenSanders and six other U.S. senators have sent a letter to @RichProducts in support of ice cream cake makers in California who have been on strike for more than two months.
Rich Products has refused to go back to the bargaining table since mid-December. @SenAlexPadilla, @SenWarren, @SenSherrodBrown , @SenMarkey, @SenBooker and @SenatorBaldwin signed onto the letter telling the company to bargain in good faith & come to a fair agreement.
“Let’s be clear. Rich Products is not a poor company. It is not going broke. Last year, your company made over $4 billion in revenue…We do not believe that it is too much to ask that you treat your workers with the respect and dignity they have earned and deserve.”
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NEW: A survey of 10,000 Kroger supermarket workers reveals that 2/3 of employees are living in poverty and struggling to survive.

The grocery company's CEO made $20 million in 2021.

Meanwhile, 40% of workers can’t afford food and 14% have been homeless in the last year.
Kroger’s wages have declined up to 22% over the past 20 years after adjusting for inflation.

25% of Kroger workers say that they went hungry in the past year and 35% of Kroger workers say that they worry about being evicted. economicrt.org/publication/hu…
The company spent $1.3B on stock buybacks, but took hazard pay away after just 2 months.

When cities mandated hazard pay, Kroger closed stores rather than compensating employees who worked through the pandemic.
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Horrifying details are emerging about the tornado disaster at Amazon's warehouse in Illinois, where at least 6 workers were killed on the job.

Before he died, Larry Virden reportedly texted his girlfriend: "Amazon won’t let us leave." He leaves behind four children.
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"At least I did get to say I love you," his mother told the local news.
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Only 7 of 190 people working at the facility were full-time staff.

Amazon’s dependence on contractors allows them to avoid liability for accidents and undercut union organizing.
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