Workers protest Starbucks store closures from @perfectunion
Multiple Starbucks workers speak out against the company's decision to close unionized stores, contrasting the impact on employees with the CEO's extravagant compensation package, including a private jet. The video intersperses these interviews with footage from a news report and scenes from a protest where workers chant for a fair contract, arguing that the company prioritizes investors and executives over its workforce.
Creator: @perfectunion on Instagram
Transcript
Our CEO is making around a 100,000,000 a year. He has a private jet that he gets to take from Seattle to California. Starbucks announced that they were closing down a good chunk of their stores, many of them being union stores, which to me seems a bit of a betrayal. If the company really cared about its workers, one, they could finalize our contract. Two, they could have not closed any of the stores and looked to actually cut from the CEO's pay package. Why are we funding his private jet when I'
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