Andrew Sage

That's... What?

And we've even waived our right to meet in a neutral space.

Uh-huh.

So we've asked if they would be willing to meet in the office of their legal representation or if they'd be willing to meet in the office of our legal representation.

And they've said no to both because supposedly, despite being the second largest union avoidance firm in the world, they've said that their office doesn't have adequate space to hold us.

But then rental space in the city is so fucking expensive that there's no feasible way to rent a space for eight hours for two days, you know, once a month.

Yeah.

Which has meant that we've ended up in some strange places.

So, college conference rooms, City Hall, we work...

I know.

This is the most deeply unserious company I have ever encountered.

There's all kinds of things like that that they've employed in the past year to attempt us making significant progress with negotiating.

And it wasn't until November this year that they finally gave us a counter on economics after we told them we would file a bad faith bargaining charge if they didn't.

Hell yeah.

Do you want to guess what their counter?

So for reference, our union's requesting $30 an hour for baristas because that's a living wage according to the MIT Living Wage Calculator.

Do you want to guess what Blue Bottle said they would give us?

18?

No.

Well, actually, strangely, yes.