 Starbucks is a union busting company and they're going to get more hostile as Unionization continues to spread now the good news is that more than a hundred Starbucks have unionized since the first store unionized Last year and I believe November or December, but we're to the situation now where they are absolutely desperate And so let's let's hear from Katie McCoy who's a Starbucks employee So today I was suspended without pay indefinitely aka soon to be fired after organizing a union in my store I was cornered in the back room by my manager and felt unsafe after weeks of targeting and emotions being high So I recorded the audio Starbucks. You are disgusting. This right here is illegal. You can't do that You can't do that But you see these companies they don't care because you know, what's what's what's gonna happen slap on the wrist You pay a fine Paying that fine by firing employees that are trying to unionize is much preferable for these large multi-billion dollar companies then seeing Wide-spread unionization. So that's why they do things like this now She spoke out in an interview with Jordan Sheridan status coup and I want to watch this because I think that these stories are really important The run a two-floor me and another co-worker who is almost nine months pregnant at the time and or and during that time we were without a store manager and Immediately the day after our strike we received a store manager super convenient and Basically from that point on We noticed corporate. We we noticed dress codes They really really heavily intense. We like and force dress code now. Let me just pause it right here They're doing these things because they're trying to find some reason to fire these employees because if you just fire them Because they're unionizing obviously That's in violation of the law. So they try to enact this draconian Authoritarian environment where if anything is wrong if your employee doesn't tuck in their shirt or they don't you know Where the correct type of shoes then they'll try to fire them for that in lieu of firing them for unionizing So they try to find some reason to fuck you over some reason to get you and really what they'll do in addition to this is Don't cut your they'll cut your hours so that way. Hopefully you quit squeeze you out So that way they don't have to fire you don't have to deal with the fine But if they need to they will do that because yeah as a as a who is it that said that X that I said It's the cost of doing business. That's exactly right write-ups obviously Targeting was really really bad in our store They dress-coded one of our deaf and unhoused partner for attendance Even though he like doesn't have a home and was living out of his car They're just extremely ruthless and do not care. They will write up anyone over anything Just in hopes to sway the vote to get people to quit so they can hire new people to sway the vote they are desperate to try to Interfere with our vote in any way Yeah It's the same story. We've seen it time and again and then there's this My trans friend just had their gender-affirming healthcare threatened by a district manager if they supported unionization You can't claim to be pro-queer and use the threat of removing gender care as a weapon So look at what Mars is responding to here Starbucks coffee. This is the official Starbucks account When we're recognized and accepted for who we are our communities are stronger for it during Pride month We're joining our LGBTQIA 2 plus partners employees and supporting trans equality who advocate for the acceptance and understanding of transgender people Hashtag of pride. Yeah, but yet you are threatening to take away health care from your trans employees. Let me be very very clear Gender-affirming care is healthcare it is medically necessary and If you're taking away your employees health care By you know trying to fuck them over because they're wanting to unionize Totally unacceptable completely illegal, but yet these same motherfuckers have the audacity to tweet this This is why it's so frustrating when you see all these companies Virtue signal about shit like this, right? Because on one hand you want to see them change their icons to a rainbow flag because we want to normalize homosexuality and queerness But you know that these aren't our allies. They're not even our frenemies They're fucking us over donating to politicians who take our rights away So, you know, this is why I always have a bittersweet Taste to my mouth when I see things like this because yeah, I want this message to be put out there I want people to see this but at the same time Look at what they're doing Taking away health care from your employees Absolutely insane. Yeah, it is for show, you know, they want queer people to buy their products They want queer people to get their coffee if there is a store that's unionizing near you I would absolutely recommend you support those employees. Do not shop there