Andrew Sage

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.

They said right now we make 18 an hour, but they said they'll keep it the same and they want to retain the rate to change it whenever they want.

they're making a floor they're committing to a floor I then tried to ask if they've ever in their history decreased wages and they're like no I don't see why we would ever do that and I'm like oh so then this floor is bullshit actually

Their baseline for negotiations as our starting position is nothing?

Yeah.

And this is a year after negotiating with them so far.