What’s the advantage to having a union specific to Starbucks rather than a broader one for batistas or even hospitality in general?
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The advantage is that it’s easier to get passed.
Unions expect everyone to sacrifice to help one group.
If Starbucks employees want to strike, than you’d expect the Marriott and Hilton and dunkin doughnuts to strike too. Or at very least, to use their dues to provide wage support for the employees on strike.
It requires a tremendous amount of solidarity for that to work. An electrician spent years learning the trade, a barista spent days. They don’t have the same investment, particularly to help out someone completely removed form their own situation.
Just getting solidarity across different stores is a challenge…
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