Four days after partners at the Del-Chip Starbucks in Buffalo filed for their election, union leader Róisín Doherty was pulled off the floor for a conversation with her manager, who told her that Starbucks was eliminating "limited availability" (part-time) positions. (1/8)
— SBWorkersUnited (@SBWorkersUnited) February 10, 2022
When partners launched our union drive in August, Starbucks corporate flooded our stores with new partners. Along with many of her coworkers, Róisín was forced to get a second job to make ends meet. (2/8)
— SBWorkersUnited (@SBWorkersUnited) February 10, 2022
"We're moving away from limited availability employees because it's limiting the amount of hours that we can give to other partners with more open schedules," Róisín's manager told her. (3/8)
— SBWorkersUnited (@SBWorkersUnited) February 10, 2022
He added: allowing partners to work part-time "is not the best thing for our partners or for us as a business moving forward." This demonstrates how corporate is attempting to pit partners against partners by blaming partners with limited availability for taking up hours. (4/8)
— SBWorkersUnited (@SBWorkersUnited) February 10, 2022
Partners at other stores have been told the same thing. Some partners whose school schedules or second jobs necessitate limited availability have simply not been scheduled at all. (5/8)
— SBWorkersUnited (@SBWorkersUnited) February 10, 2022
At the beginning of our union campaign, corporate allocated 200 extra labor hours per week to each store. Now, despite all the new hires, they cut labor down to pre-campaign levels. (6/8)
— SBWorkersUnited (@SBWorkersUnited) February 10, 2022
Instead of trying to force partners out of the company, corporate should maintain the staffing levels they insisted made hiring additional partners necessary in the first place. (7/8)
— SBWorkersUnited (@SBWorkersUnited) February 10, 2022
Starbucks promises us flexibility and accommodating schedules. We will not stand for this thinly disguised attempt to bust our union by forcing partners -- including members of Del-Chip's organizing committee and Elmwood's bargaining committee -- out of our jobs. (8/8)
— SBWorkersUnited (@SBWorkersUnited) February 10, 2022