Andrew Sage
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pay less than 60 percent of our income towards rent yeah yeah take a vacation maybe yeah one other thing that i think is a great point about how it's actually capital responding to the organization of baristas people workers whatever is they haven't done it recently but last summer they sent a very long-winded and angry email about all the bargaining updates and press that the union was getting um they're so mad at me that i'm good at my job
And then this past summer, after we did two walkouts in fairly quick succession in response to two different things, they attempted to accuse us of intermittent striking just because they were so scared.
They didn't know what else to do to try and be like, you didn't own me.
Please don't put in the news that I'm mad.
Their lawyer even said in a bargaining session later on that he had a less than 75% chance of ever winning that argument at the board.
But they were just so mad that we walked out twice in May that they tried to claim that it was unprotected, but that they were being benevolent by not disciplining anyone for it.
And they haven't really given much of a response to our multi-day strike yet, aside from their lawyer emailing us earlier this week to ask us for our entire legal justification for why the terminations of Abby, Nora, and Ashley were illegal, and what legal justification do we have to say that they're negotiating a contract in bad faith?
Which is, like, the NLRA?
What are we doing here?
Yeah, so what's coming up next for y'all?
What's the next stage?
If you or anybody that you know either works at a Blue Bottle or wants to apply to a Blue Bottle to help organize it, please reach out to us by email at bluebottleunion at gmail.com.
If you want to support our independent unionism and help us remain independent and be able to go on multiple day strikes, which clearly piss off our Nestle overlords...