Andrew Sage

So they would have had to get to an impasse on the entire contract before doing it.

Yeah.

And their lawyer basically said, well, we weren't getting anywhere with that, so we're going to do it anyways.

Oh, God.

Labor law is so fun because it's like...

Like every boss breaks like 100 million labor laws a second and then kind of nothing happens unless you force it to.

Speaking of breaking weird labor laws, since we unionized, one nice thing that has happened was until May of this year, they were negotiating over serious discipline.

So final written warnings or terminations with us.

In effect, what this means is that they would sit down with us and just talk about why they felt like terminating someone was justified until they said we're not going to do anything else aside from fire them.

But because of an NLRB ruling with Starbucks at the end of April, their lawyer said that they were done with that and they felt that they had no legal obligation to continue doing it.

Oh, fun!

Yeah, which is a break from past practice.

And we have in writing them committing to negotiating over serious discipline with us.

So less than a week after they say, we're not going to bargain over discipline with you anymore, they fire one coworker of ours and our store immediately walked out over it.

Hell yeah, hell yeah.

Yeah, I continue to be proud of that walkout specifically because it wasn't planned and because it was over something that is pretty technical labor law-wise.

Just the fact that they didn't negotiate over the termination.

That rocks.

That's like, girl who's read a bunch of weird labor history, this thing feels like a thing from fucking weird labor history.

The thing it reminds me of is, there was this thing in, I think it was Zeregora.