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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 10

    Jeet Heer Retweeted More Perfect Union

    While the core motivation for union-busting is economic, it also has an emotional layer of paternalism. Guys like Schultz like to think of themselves as the paterfamilias of a large happy clan. Negotiating with a union destroys that illusion.https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1513157469769506823 …

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    More Perfect UnionVerified account @MorePerfectUS
    SCOOP: Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's Q&A tour is off to a disastrous start. In Long Beach, CA, on Friday workers challenged Starbucks' illegal union busting campaign. “If you hate Starbucks so much, why don’t you go somewhere else?” Schultz shot back. https://perfectunion.us/starbucks-barista-challenges-ceo-howard-schultz-at-secret-meeting/ …
    9:19 AM - 10 Apr 2022
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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 10

        Jeet Heer Retweeted More Perfect Union

        Memo to Howard Schultz: the people who work for you already have families. they don't need you to be a father figure. They need you to negotiate in good faith with their union.https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1513157469769506823 …

        Jeet Heer added,

        More Perfect UnionVerified account @MorePerfectUS
        SCOOP: Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's Q&A tour is off to a disastrous start. In Long Beach, CA, on Friday workers challenged Starbucks' illegal union busting campaign. “If you hate Starbucks so much, why don’t you go somewhere else?” Schultz shot back. https://perfectunion.us/starbucks-barista-challenges-ceo-howard-schultz-at-secret-meeting/ …
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      1. JM‏ @LiberalDem101 Apr 10
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        “Who wants to hear my personal story again?!” - Howard Schultz

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      2. sam‏ @samiamsamh Apr 10
        Replying to @HeerJeet @mhairiforrest

        billionaires: we are just regular people yeah, no, no you are not

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      3. Mhairi Forrest  ☮️‏ @mhairiforrest Apr 10
        Replying to @samiamsamh @HeerJeet

        Can’t have those employees thinking their peers now can we?

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      1. Dan Milway‏ @thrilway Apr 10
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Feudalism is alive and well in the multinational corporation!

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      1. Will Thomas, MLS‏ @caribouwireless Apr 10
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Schultz has no illusions that that he's running a corporation. But he wants workers to think he thinks of himself as their corporate Dad, and not to think about how many lawyers signed off on every word Schultz says to them and how many of those words were written by consultants.

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      1. Tweetmonger ™️‏ @DwayneFuhlhage Apr 10
        Replying to @HeerJeet @paolobacigalupi

        It takes a special kind of father figure to put employees behind counters with unmasked customers during peak Delta, while not providing quality masks or enforcing mask rules evenly among employees. My vaccinated barista daughter did not enjoy being sick with Omicron for a week.

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      2. Dave Kamper  🌹‏ @dskamper Apr 10
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Perhaps I’m quibbling, but I don’t think the “core” motivation for unionbusting is economic. It’s about power and control in the workplace. There are many industries where unions improve the bottom line and they are fought just as hard.

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      3. Dave Kamper  🌹‏ @dskamper Apr 10
        Replying to @dskamper @HeerJeet

        A good example is construction. Union construction workers get higher wages and benefits, but do the work faster, with less wastage of raw materials, and fewer mistakes, meaning the bottom line for the companies that use union labor is improved. Yet they resist unions.

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      2. Brett "Solidarity 2022" Banditelli‏Verified account @banditelli Apr 10
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I actually don't think the core motivation for union busting is economic. It's power. And not just for Schultz, but for everyone who thinks THEY built Starbucks and the workers are just their minions who should be grateful for the opportunity to serve them and their vision.

        1 reply 3 retweets 76 likes
      3. Angelo Young‏ @angeloyoung_ Apr 10
        Replying to @banditelli @HeerJeet

        SBUX just suspended buybacks in a response to unionization, so there is a powerful (if not core) economic motivation to union bust. More $ for workers (labor) typically means less $ for shareholders (capital). It's an old struggle, but one US labor has been losing for decades.

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