Andrew Sage

Yeah.

This is one of the reasons why we unionized to begin with is just because bosses can be petty tyrants.

Yeah.

And sometimes it seems like the only reason that they got into being a boss is because they want to be a petty tyrant but don't have the soul for politics.

Yeah.

Anyways, yeah, we unionized last May.

For anybody that's unaware, Blue Bottle is a so-called specialty coffee chain that is owned entirely by Nestle.

Yes, that one that everyone regards as widely being evil.

Yeah.

See an extremely long episode that I did, for example, about Nestle chocolate and child labor.

It's great.

It's child slave labor.

Good stuff.

We love capitalism.

Yeah.

I mean, this is going to get wildly off topic before we even begin, but if anybody looks up the NGO Coffee Watch, they do a lot of great reporting and research on the supply chains of coffee, specifically Nestle's and Starbucks's, and it's all very ugly stuff.

But Blue Bottle.

Blue Bottle is a specialty coffee chain owned by Nestle.

We unionized all six of their Greater Boston locations in May of 2024.

And this year, we added four locations in the East Bay area to our union in July.