Wednesday, December 01, 2021
You wouldn't necessarily know it from the coverage in the Buffalo News but several local Starbucks stores are trying to unionize. It's a national story, and an interesting one, because Starbucks corporate is throwing the works at trying to block it. They've retained Littler, Mendelson to handle the legal piece, which has been more or less conventional stuff like trying to increase the size of the potential bargaining unit. The NLRB shot that one down. More notably they have flooded the area with corporate representatives who show up in the stores to buttonhole employees, or just sit in the stores pretending to be just folks. These folks are hilariously obvious: people in Buffalo don't hang around in coffee shops wearing white Gucci loafers without socks, or sport hundred dollar haircuts.
After a long day of this the corporate finks go out for a drink,and that's where they make their biggest mistake: they complain about Buffalo. People in this city will put up with a lot, but if you knock Buffalo they will not respond well. Bartenders all over town are listening to these conversations, and telling their barista friends about what they are overhearing. The votes get counted December 8. My hunch is that the Mermaid is getting its first union.
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