How does it even make sense to have a union for a small local coffee shop? And my god, are baristas ever full of themselves. Somehow, I dislike you even more. I hope you know you’re a joke to the entire food industry–way before this, but even more so now. You have managed to become even less respected than you previously were. Monkeys could do your job. —Annoyed
This article appears in May 9-15, 2013.
Uh… well unions can be as much trouble as they’re worth.. But I don’t see why workers shouldn’t feel they have the right to create a union. It doesn’t mean anything unless it has to.
This bitch was clearly wrtten by the coffeeshop owners/operators…
A union is two or more. Ya ever heard of a union? Or perhaps your parents were not together so they never formed a UNION…… UNITED …… getting clearer now?
Basistas, dishwashers, police, teachers, nurses, clerical staff etc … almost everyone but YOU are in a UNION. You are in an ONION with thick layers muffling the real world.
Fk
Anyone who works gets respect from me, no matter what they do. It seems like you also work in the food industry? I am sure a lot of people look down on what you do as well. You are a piece of shit.
Oooooh! The union-haters are attempting to gang-rape us with their dislikes! We’re so scared!
1. More and more Crayons says things that I agree with. Unions give power to the people and I support them every chance I get. I do think the recent coffee shop thing was a bit much but I support them anyway. I know tons of people who work in unions and don’t like it – but they’re still making more money and have more of a security net than they would other wise. One and only down-side to unions is that people who DON’T want to work are usually protected. But there’s a few bad apples in every barrel.
2. Coffee-slining monkey’s? I would pay extra for that.
The irony IS that a place that’s all ‘ohh look at us we’re all fair trade and shit’ fires their workers who just so HAPPEN to be talking unionization of their shop workers.
Makes you realize this whole fair trade thing they’re flogging is just a lame marketing ploy!
Unions aren’t necessarily restricted to a single business.
Me, I’ve seen more customers full of themselves than baristas.
Speaking personally, I appreciate the baristas at the barStux that I frequent. (Keep those Mocha Cookie Crumble fraps coming, folks). And if any of them have NSCAD degrees, well, I don’t really hold it against them >; )
In this particular case I really can’t shake the feeling that it was more about ego than any real need for a union. A pair of hipster Occupistas trying to force unionization where it was neither desired, nor required, just to get some activist cred.
Verrrrry progressive, kids. *world-weary eyeroll*
A union for java jockeys? And people wonder why over a thousand N.S. employers are hiring immigrants.
Bringing a culture of “Fuck you Jack, I’m on my break” to a customer service based business that has plenty of local competition seems to be an idea on a par with Adam Sandler doing a remake of “Life is Beautiful” or “So I didn’t have a condom but I figured, when am I ever going to be in Uganda again…”.
Now I’m sure that there are a few old Wobblies out there, and academics with Pete Seeger playing on their Walkpersons and “Fair Play for Cuba” buttons on their greasy old macs who would go out of their way to patronize a Unionized coffee shop. But those who want their morning fix to be tasty AND fast will go elsewhere.
You’ll be singing Chumbawumba tunes while filling out your E.I. forms.
I don’t think you’re allowed to use “sense” and “union” in the same sentence, are you?
Picture the head of the bus drivers union running your local swill stall, sort of makes you shudder dunnit?
If a coffee slinger ever tried to treat me with the arrogant indifference of the average CUPE puke, she’d be shown a radically new way to make grilled panninis – sans electricity and a fancy machine.
I had sex with a barista once, really wasn’t that special.
how else are nscad students expected to pay off thier huge student loans?
Kirk, i had sex with her, too. You are correct, it wasn’t that special.
I disagree, gentlemen. That barista was the Pele of anal.
“We do not and cannot accept the principle that incompetence justifies dismissal. That is victimisation.” Fred Kite (Peter Sellers), Shop Steward in “I’m All Right,Jack” 1959