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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,176 posts)
Sat Apr 1, 2023, 07:30 PM Apr 2023

Starbucks fired the employee responsible for igniting the Starbucks Workers United union campaign

Starbucks fired Alexis Rizzo, the employee responsible for igniting the Starbucks Workers United union campaign, just days after the company's former CEO Howard Schultz testified on Capitol Hill about the coffee chain's alleged union-busting, CNBC confirmed.

Rizzo worked as a shift supervisor at Starbucks for 7 years and served as a union leader at the Genesee St. store in Buffalo, New York, which was one of the first two stores in the country to win its union campaign.

Starbucks Workers United announced Rizzo's termination in a tweet Saturday and said in a corresponding GoFundMe page that "this is retaliation at its worst."

"I'm absolutely heartbroken. It wasn't just a job for me. It was like my family," Rizzo told CNBC in an interview. "It was like losing everything. I've been there since I was 17 years old. It's like my entire support system, and I think that they knew that."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/starbucks-fired-the-employee-responsible-for-igniting-the-starbucks-workers-united-union-campaign/ar-AA19m9oo

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Starbucks fired the employee responsible for igniting the Starbucks Workers United union campaign (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2023 OP
Starbucks so so stupid to do this sdfernando Apr 2023 #1
I don't remember leftieNanner Apr 2023 #2
Years for me, too. Over-roasted coffee beans to taste burned. 3Hotdogs Apr 2023 #3

sdfernando

(5,378 posts)
1. Starbucks so so stupid to do this
Sat Apr 1, 2023, 07:34 PM
Apr 2023

It’s going to cost them a lot of $$$. They can’t lose me as a customer though…haven’t been to one in years.

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