Here’s what they could do, start a “coffee club”, set up a stall right nearby Starbucks. Then campaign against them while providing caffeine at-cost (potentially even paying someone to sell this dirt-cheap alternative to Starbucks at all the same hours they’re open).
Sure it’s not the same (being from Australia, it boggles the mind how Americans even like Starbucks), but you’ll be offering an alternative to people who just want a caffeine fix and are open to being pursuaded into boycotting Starbucks.
Obviously, would only work if student association rules at the university allow you to set up food stalls.
Exactly. People consume mindlessly. If you remove their ability to consume a product at all, then they can’t contribute to the shit practices of an ethically bankrupt company unless they emphatically go out of their way and go the inconvenient route to do so.
Nobody who likes coffee goes to Starbucks, but than again there are university coffeemakers wich are even worse than cafeteria coffee. Luckily my campus had a really bad Italian pizza place with excellent coffee. Not sure what the point of that story was.
First choice for me is to make my own. I have a Keurig at home and one in my office at work. I have reusable pods and my preferred coffee from the grocery store at each location.
If for some reason I can’t make my own, first choice is Wawa. I like their coffee, and I like the way they handle the process (get your coffee yourself, and drink it while you wait in line to pay).
If Wawa is unavailable, next stop would be Dunkin.
If all that is left is Starbucks, I’m going without. However, I drink it black. Without all the nonsense people get in their over-priced coffee at Starbucks, it tastes like pig farm runoff. I don’t actually know what pig farm runoff tastes like, but I imagine it is similar to Starbucks coffee.
In a show of solidarity, the students plan to deliver petitions with more than 1,500 signatures to the two universities this week.
Petitions. Don't. Work. Especially with 1,500 signatures, because Starbucks will just scoff at that and carry on. Really dumb move, guys. If this somehow works then fine but historically speaking, has petitioning ever worked?
“As a company, we respect our partners’ right to organize, freely associate, engage in lawful union activities and bargain collectively without fear of reprisal or retaliation — and remain committed to our stated aim of reaching ratified contracts for union-represented stores in 2024,” he said.
Except the part that you guys elect to omit, is that you've purposefully allowed stores to unionize and then you've went to shut them down. You're full of shit, sir.
The raise management was referring to is an automatic pay hike workers already get each year, Gillespie said.
They might not, they may, we'll see. I did look at the article again to note that there actually had been a couple of successful victories already with other universities where they would not renew contracts with starbucks. While it is likely that Riverside might join those victories, I'm a half-glass empty kind of person saying that there's a chance it might not.
Yea. Because organized response to the problem isn’t as effective as jail time. You can dismiss violence or gaslight anyone and make it about that rather than the issue.
It’s almost like they thought about it and had an equally proactive response that was tailored exactly to Starbucks. How dare we think it’s less than!
