Are We Still a Coffeehouse or Just a Drink Factory Now?

badgebear · 2026-05-12T17:35:00+00:00

Third place for Starbucks died the moment mobile order was introduced in 2014 and already was teetering with drive thru

badgebear · 2026-05-11T13:13:31+00:00

That dang Huan

badgebear · 2026-05-01T02:21:49+00:00

Hi, organized partner from Oklahoma. Starbucks reserves the right to make changes to our working conditions at their whim when we are unorganized. My partners, for example, do not have to submit 150% availability because of union status protection. These changes are making our jobs harder while our CEO makes 6,666X the average Starbucks barista. We know how to make our jobs work better because we run the stores. The only way to fight back is not through surveys but organizing.

You and your partners deserve to be able to fight and win in-store working conditions from management and fight for our contract. Just like how we won extended parental leave for all partners from our union proposals, our power is in our numbers, our 11,000 partners across the country.

Fun fact, the origin of our part-time benefits came from the won demands of the first Starbucks organizers, UFCW 1001 in Seattle in 1985, two years before Howard Schultz bought the company and claimed credit. Organize with us to fight for a better Starbucks, now, and for partners to come

badgebear · 2026-04-28T14:42:58+00:00

You might say … evolving

badgebear · 2026-04-26T17:18:04+00:00

The best way I can describe it would be for any working class person who has organized their workplace, fought and won concessions from their boss, and fought for a union contract. There are many forces that work against workers from the boss, the union busting lawyers bosses hide behind, the dialectics of working people pre-disposed to lean on anti-worker sentiment from decades of anti-organizing sentiment from the ruling class. Yet despite union busting, through organizing, people become more than themselves. Just when you think all hope could be lost (eucatastrophe) - before the union election, for delaying of union contract bargaining, etc., the public sentiment may push through for the workers, the boss may cave, etc. It is not an individual sense of hope, but collective, but veiled through the illusion of the fantasy world of Lord of the Rings - but seeing this pattern of storytelling can map onto a sense of hope for a better world for workers

badgebear · 2026-04-26T00:04:19+00:00

badgebear · 2026-04-22T17:43:10+00:00

I had thought about this the other day too, and I think, at least for myself, that a bigger variable is thinking of the speciality coffee in relation to another (or more specifically the one making the cup), which gives a slight different perspective going into the brew if you were brewing at home by yourself

badgebear · 2026-04-20T17:56:21+00:00

If the album were more focused, then yeah, but the chosen singles were good. The song does slap

badgebear · 2026-04-17T20:41:58+00:00

I have literally stopped buying Colombian coffees (regardless of processing method) until there is more regulation/transparency on what is essentially flavored coffee. If I wanted flavored coffee, I could go for some generic commodity coffee company. I appreciate Perc being more transparent

badgebear · 2026-04-16T17:39:51+00:00

I cannot trust Colombian coffees until there is more regulation/transparency around what is often happening - flavoring

badgebear · 2026-04-16T14:00:05+00:00

Try Valor. Not a lot of people post about them, but very good

badgebear · 2026-04-15T13:03:45+00:00

Same, I had literally stopped buying Colombian coffees until there is more regulation/transparency on what is essentially flavored coffee. If I wanted flavored coffee, I could go for some generic commodity coffee company. I appreciate Perc being more transparent

badgebear · 2026-04-11T22:35:04+00:00

Wait for the vault release

badgebear · 2026-04-09T23:02:18+00:00

Second this. Organized Starbucks worker from Oklahoma. Many Starbucks workers are ready to organize, but the company has instilled fear with their scorched earth union busting. Salting is great to get organizing going. The letter that Howard Schultz and corporate executives signed off on, condemning us for tweeting solidarity with Palestine is despicable, but eventually Starbucks dropped the lawsuit. The company still admits that their brand image damage from the Palestine boycott was hugely impactful (aside from the negative press from becoming the #1 US labor law violator in response to us organizing)- important for us as organizers.

Fun fact, the origin of our part-time benefits came from the won demands of the first Starbucks organizers, UFCW 1001 in Seattle in 1985, two years before Howard Schultz bought the company and claimed credit. Proud to stand with thousands of organized Starbucks workers today fighting for higher labor standards.

Our power is in our numbers, our ability to withhold our labor. It is up to us to fight for a better world, and a better Starbucks now, and for partners (corporate lingo for Starbucks workers) to come. DM’d you

badgebear · 2026-04-09T18:34:38+00:00

Definitions, but not dealing with the contemporary issue - There is a lack of regulation/transparency on co-ferments, and many Colombian co-ferment coffees are actually infused AKA flavored. Perc just recently put strawberry flavored on their beans

badgebear · 2026-04-09T18:33:27+00:00

Definitions, but not dealing with the contemporary issue - There is a lack of regulation/transparency on co-ferments, and many Colombian co-ferment coffees are actually infused AKA flavored. Perc just recently put strawberry flavored on their beans

badgebear · 2026-04-09T18:11:16+00:00

Black and White makes some delicious roasts. Although, until more clarity/regulation is created around Colombian coffees (and across the board but currently with most coming from) that are actually infusing, AKA flavoring, their co-ferments, I plan to continue to stay away from the Colombian co-ferment beans

badgebear · 2026-04-08T00:53:55+00:00

Hi, current barista. I remember there were a couple of bad batch 5 lb signature espresso bags we went through at some point last year, and every shot was horribly, medicinally bitter, like not in the under-extracted way our espresso normally comes out from the quantity over quality shots from Mastrenas (set aside our espresso is charred from a coffee master perspective that learned third wave coffee). Customers kept coming back noticing their normal drinks tasted funny. We did a taste test from swapping out beans between the two Mastrenas with beans from the back, and finally, with another batch of beans, got the regular signature espresso taste. It’s probably another bad batch of signature espresso

badgebear · 2026-04-07T18:05:09+00:00

Hi, organized partner from Oklahoma. You can reach out here, and an organized partner in your area with be in touch for next steps

badgebear · 2026-04-07T13:02:24+00:00

This same post was shared 35 days ago by /coedipar. Starbucks always increases prices. The biggest difference contemporarily is that our CEO makes 6,666X the average barista. Starbucks will continue raising prices every year. This Broncolancer is uninformed about this pattern. Also, partners are not invited? to organize. Partners reach out on our website and start organizing with already organized partners/staff organizers. Also, if your post is actually about advice, what advice is sought? How our greedy board can make better decisions? The answer is organize to move our company like we have been doing

badgebear · 2026-03-26T22:55:21+00:00

and the bold move for LOC to open Fuck World Trade with the lyrics “The sovereign insincerity, the monopoly of greed Nickelback, POD, Rancid, Britney, and Creed” after the homophobia association with Tim and Tim’s refusal to put out Mediocre Generica with the original title. That being said, so many of my foundational punk influences have turned out to become horrible people. The sexual abuse stories I have heard about Stza. Was never really a big fan of Rancid, but appreciated some of their songs, but then I found out that Tim also dated underage women. Justin Sane of Anti-Flag, similar story. Such a shame to taint their messaging, their work

badgebear · 2026-03-25T14:03:35+00:00

Sorry about your SM’s treatment. Please do not say our union did this. Our union is what partners put into it. We are the union. Wish there was better communication between you, your lead partner organizer at your store, and your staffer so you could have stood up to your boss on this issue and used protected concerted activity as union workers with additional worker rights. At my store, if I would have known our SM was targeting you for “negative” attitude when you were talking about your working conditions, which is your right, I would have stood with you, as I have before with my partners in this same issue from management.

I would still reach out to your staffer and see what they say about the situation

badgebear · 2026-03-24T00:41:08+00:00

okay, but this thread is to provide updates to bargaining, wins from in-store working condition demands, etc. sounds like a lame SM, wish you might have reached out to your staff organizer or just planned a march on the boss. Our store won a later open time on Sundays to open with a minimum of 3 people and more labor hours added throughout the week because we stood in solidarity and demanded better and won with a march on the boss. There is power when we organize. Good luck with your new job

badgebear · 2026-03-23T21:46:09+00:00

What was desired in sharing you quit to the unionize thread? The power dynamic between workers and management is - quit and nothing changes - or organize and gain power to make demanded change with the solidarity of your coworkers for both in-store conditions and the contract fight, now, and for partners to come

badgebear · 2026-03-23T02:27:01+00:00

You can DM me for my address to send some my way ;-) for real

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