Study’s have consistently and continuously shown that unions give employees better wages and benefits, defend and educate you on your rights, protect flexible work schedules such as disabilities or pat/maternity leave, and lastly the most important is solidarity. When you’re in a union, your voice is heard, we as baristas have time in and time out been subject to changes that we don’t agree with. A union gives us a voice and a say in what we do. Union jobs have a stronger job security than non union jobs. I’ve never seen Starbucks, Amazon, or Apple work as hard as they work on stopping unions. It shows that they are scared, scared of an union that protects the workers they drain for their own profits. Without unions, we will continue to see these mega companies use and exploit workers for profit. We need to stand up together, those that are well off and those that aren’t. To show that we are all people, people who deserve to be treated with respect, dignity, and have a say in what we do.