More and more employees prefer unions

In most American companies, employees want to form unions: Starbucks, Amazon, Apple. But is this really the beginning of a new era of co-determination? Or are big companies blocking the growing popularity?

D.He started the buffalo revolution. Michelle Eason has been working at the Starbucks branch since 2010, not far from Niagara Falls, in New York State, USA. This is not a bad job, it comes with benefits like health insurance not found in his other job as a theater company manager. Two and a half years ago, she had her ears pierced when employees at another coffee chain in Buffalo voted to form a union. “It gave me flea,” she says.

Can you imagine that too Starbucks To do? Where is not even one of the 9000 branches in the United States yet unionized? In a company that prides itself on being a good employer and calls its employees “partners”? Eason, on the other hand, thinks something is wrong with Starbucks, and opinion is reinforced during the epidemics. The workload increased, for example with additional tasks such as disinfecting the branch, on the other hand there was only a short-term risk payment.