Two Dallas Starbucks Announce Union Organizing Efforts | Eater Dallas

"Employees at the 5000 Belt Line Rd. location announced their intent to unionize on May 25, citing understaffing, low pay, lack of transparency from corporate, and the removal of pandemic-era benefits including a pay raise and food-and-beverage benefits. Their organizing letter emphasized a desire to be seen and treated as human rather than as a number; it also praised the store manager as “very supportive” while noting the manager is often pulled away to train at other locations because of high turnover. The team is organizing with a national barista workers’ organization amid a nationwide wave of organizing, even as corporate publicly stresses it is listening and making changes that workers characterize as part of an anti-union response." - Courtney E. Smith