I worked at Starbucks in 2016 and my district manager was a wonderful man. He knew the names of every partner in his district and made us feel valued and listened to. He was fired. He was given no notice and stormed with an NDA. He had worked with Starbucks for over 30 years. Starbucks cares about NOTHING more than their bottom line. No amount of being an excellent employee could compare to what they stand to lose in benefits and their other promises and insensitives that would lead someone to give that much of their lives, conveniently close to retirement. Shame on Howard.
Howard Shultz has no shame. Calling Starbucks' servers "partners" is the same bs as calling Amazon packagers "associates". Its how they make a shit sandwich sound like a steak.
Schultz is doing exactly what any CEO should be doing. Deny and stall so that the corporation can keep extracting surplus value from workers and provide returns to shareholders. There isn't anything special about this one; it's systemic.
The Senator was grand standing & a circus actor - as usual - in these fake "hearings". The are choreographed guilt manufacturers for a predictable gullible public who ADORE and BEG for outrage. They are selling COFFEE! How great of pay or benefits do you think they can offer? Try it yourself and report back.
"Starbucks has not broken the law". What he meant to say is "Starbucks hired hundreds of lawyers that help us find loopholes so that we can grease ourselves and squeezes through the cracks so that the law can't completely apply to us. "
12:45 "Oh, you'll have your chance" Lmao, just keeps going. Like a multi billion dollar company hasn't already told their side of the story to attempt to demonize the workers for standing up for themselves.
Why is it so difficult for corporations, such as Star Bucks, to share more of their profits with their workers, unionized workers or not? The greed is incomprehensible.
Because they dont want to set a precedent that workers and regular citizens have any power, rights or deserve any respect by giving even a fraction of an inch
The company has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders, not the customers or workers. It's actually against the law to pay the workers well if it takes away from shareholder compensation. Shareholders can sue if they are not happy with the wealth distribution. And the shareholders are protected by the corporate veil.
There exists in the finance world a certain concept: A fiduciary responsibility to maximize dividends for shareholders. The reasons that companies keep ramping up their stock buybacks, cutting more and more and more overhead from their workers, safety standards, equipment and materials are numerous, almost exclusively based on capitalist greed, but that fiduciary responsibility is a serious one.
at a recent strike in France, some of the workers left the picket line and bricked up the door to the CEOs office - to leave his office he had to climb down the outside of the building!
6:06 the way he rotates the cup to center the starbucks logo in the camera as he hears the words “deny the constitutional right to form a union” is cartoonishly devilish
Schultz needs to be fined the minimum of $50 million or 5 years prison term for illegally and maliciously retaliating against unionizing Starbucks’ employees.
I will never understand why people don't realize we're subsidizing businesses when they don't pay their workers and we're handing out food stamps etc all on taxpayer expense
The problem is its "civil" so far criminal cases they know will go nowhere criminally . Because they got a ocean of lawyers and can delay delay delay delay. And government currently underfunds the people supposed to investigate these crimes and enforce them. Essentially 100,000 workers covered by 1 enforcement officer. Which its hard to is that alot or a little. But to give a little context 1/4 women experience sexual assault 68% of all workers experience wage theft. 61% have experienced or witnessed discrimination. Aka each enforcement agent has to deal with 50,000 PLUS cases. These are complex cases which take alot of legwork. Which is why alot of the time they stick with the easy cases aka employer fired me for being black said so in front of bunch of people. And left voicemail stating as much. Rather than the harder to prove cases. For example walmart has done similar closures. And its simply hard to prove because they close other stores keep records and essentially have a documented reason to close any store at any time. With loss statements and other things to make it "seem" reasonable and not because of union vote. Even if government agency does fixate choose to pursue them if they stall agency may run out of steam. In meantime they fund politicians and if right politicians get elected they will replace agencys leadership. Who will either defund investigation or reassign most the staff or do anything in their power to kill it.
NO! You fall for the ancient, standard congressional grandstanding to feed the gullible public the outrage they hunger for. Think of the McCarthy days, etc etc. It works - you fell for it. If you start a bzns selling COFFEE, tell us how many benefits you can afford to pay. I ran a moderately profitable distribution bzns for 30 yrs. and can tell you that you need to open your eyes and think for a while - because you are simply wrong.
13:30 This is the problem. Corporations are hyper focused on PR aimed at customers - because they factory farm us for our wallets - at the expense of the employees. The hidden point of giant corporations is accumulation of power by process of accumulating money, requiring the abuse of the employee. A business's first loyalty should always be the employee. Without them there is no business. It's a slow crawl to failure. Schultz is a complete and utter slimeball. This interview sounded like such a whiney, defensive, "woe is me I'm so misunderstood" little brat.
Corporate America truly does treat American citizens like little more than a "herd" of consumers to be corralled and exploited. Hell, now that I think about it, our government is doing the same thing!
I think they're proving just fine that there's plenty of business, and that it's dystopian. The key question is will the government impose meaningful penalties.
@@brandonvanevery5878nope. We got a couple (literally only) politicians willing to and able because of their positions, bring this shit to light…but actually holding them accountable..not gonna happen. The billionaire game is airtight, that’s why these fuckers don’t even sweat these hearings, not one bit.
@@ohio Yes, and I'm saying that's a problem. He doesn't really care about customers. He is spewing what he thinks will sell well to customers so he can make as much as he can for himself and his share holders in order to pay off politicians, making sure his corporation can remain a person (?!) and protect corporation and share holders from paying their fair share of taxes. The PR garbage, "We care oh so deeply for our customers," is an attempt to turn this into an Us (corporation and customers) vs Them (union workers and whiny employees) split, to hide this hoarding wealth/power habit, and justify abusing the employees to make sure it happens.
I’ve been following Bernie since he first started appearing on TYT way back when Obama was president; it broke my heart when he was robbed by his own party in TWO different elections. After all this time, decades since he joined efforts to fight for black students in the 60s, he’s still out here swinging on our behalf. The only politician I’ve ever loved; I just wish we could do something cool for him just once by putting him in a position to do real change in the White House.
@@paulstewart6293 That's why you strike, protest and riot. Everywhere. That is the beauty of democracy. Freeze the country in its tracks. Notice why the media isn't showing footage of the union strikes and mobilization in France? They don't want us getting any ideas here.
Bernie Sanders continues to be one of the most persuasive arguments against term limits. We need many more like him in the government, actually representing and fighting for our basic needs, freedom, and dignity instead of the fascistic legion trying to strip us of our rights while catering to oligarchs and their corporations.
Right... a politician with a combined net worth of $8M between himself and his wife... owns 3 homes... and has never done anything constructive in his professional life... yeah, we need more of him in Congress. GTHOH Bernie Sanders is a talking head who is full of sound bites, she speaks loudly when he has the mic while trying to puff out his chest, but suddenly doesn't want to talk above a whisper when his hypocrisy is pointed out. He's absolutely worthless as a politician.
I worked 24 years in healthcare until retiring at 60 and happily leaving the rat race workforce in 2021. The 1st and last time I ever had Starbucks was when a drug rep. bought Starbucks coffee for our department. Nasty!. Life is much too short. I won’t waste my precious time or my hard earned money on Starbucks.
Why can’t these people be held responsible? I don’t understand why this takes so long. The judges have said Starbucks is at fault MULTIPLE times. So why? Just fine him or put him away for breaking rules.
Don't think unions are a panacea, just look at your public service sector. If Schultz had half a brain, he would do a form of profit sharing, give people a stake in the outcome of the company.
@@JB-yb4wnhe does in the form of sawdust crumb shares. The longer you're employed, the more you get, and you have the option to buy more. It's complicated and cryptic and I just know the young people working there have no idea what to do so it's easier to do nothing. What I want to see (I work for the Bux, can you tell) is individual store bonuses going to the employees proportionally so there's more personal pride in your store.
I shouldn't have watched this, I was having such a chill and relaxing night. Now my dogs coming to check on me because I guess they can smell my blood pressure rising. This Oligarchy needs to be pulled to the ground.
Notice how he purposely re-adjusts the cup after putting it down so the cameras could see it? It was a total power move. He was saying my company is bigger than all of you can we can do what we damn well please.
The one percent has been able to maintain the divisive method within the ninety nine percent. Which in turn has prevented the ninety percent to vote out the politicians that actually ONLY work for their one percent donors.
@@chrislim7976 there’s nothing ironic or hypocritical about him having money you dolt. Labor reformers/democratic socialists/socialists do not have any problems with people making money. We have a problem with people making money by exploiting others, and there is nothing exploitative about the way he made his money.
Interesting that under the RICO statutes, embezzling union funds is a crime; Obstruction of Justice is a crime; but, criminally obstructing legal union organizing isn't covered. That's pretty convenient.
@@amberfitzsimons do you mean his home or his one vacation house? And do you personally deserve reparations? Because if you do I think it would probably be more fair if everyone chipped in and perhaps also paid out everyone else who deserves them. Also, is it "capitalism" to be paid by the state to be a mayor and senator? Because if it's not then I don't think he used capitalism to buy his homes.
6:04 You see how much attention Schultz gives his branded cup when he sets it down. He's not even listening he just wants to make sure the logo is fully visible to the camera.
Historically speaking, the second amendment is how we dealt with capitalist swine like Schultz. He was in grave danger at that captive audience meeting and he is far too stupid to realize it. Jury nullification would free whoever did it too, guarantee it. Billionaires shouldn’t exist. One way or another, this second gilded age will end.
Such a stupid statement. Union bosses buy democrat politicians. Then they give your union dues to democrats who ruin the economy. Unions ruined the USA industry. Then taxpayers were on the hook as usual. Liberals have ruin inner city after inner city. It’s why people are leaving ny and California for Florida and Texas
Profit sharing? Let someone else grow a business step in as an employee and expect a share of their profits? Wow never thought of that would the profit be enough?
@@elizabethtaylor7833 I’m unsure what you mean by “would the profit be enough?” Profit is always excess of expenses, it’s their net income, it’s their take home. To answer your question simply, yes, there would be enough profit to share
I am boycotting starbucks - lots of indie carts/shops. I love Bernie. He has always stood up for us, the 99%. We need more people like Bernie because he fights for all of us, regardless which side of the aisle we stand upon.
Politicians talking accomplishes nothing. Workers revolting makes the world stop in its tracks. It's time we stop expecting speech from politicians to make a difference.
They have also shut down a LOT of Stores before they could unionize. We saw that here in MA in several locations (they have claimed other reasons for the shut downs, but pretty much those were excuses and not reality).
We need harsher laws for these corporations. Every employee in the US should be unionized. If they hire anyone without a union, it will only mean that they'll illegally hire cheap labor from other countries. To fix that problem, they would also need to be unionized with a time limit permit to work here. If any corporation breaks the laws, they should not only pay a huge fine, (that leaves a dent on their bottom line) but they should be shut down for good if they repeat the offense. Enough abuse on our citizens. Many foreigners come here, open shops and become billionaires on OUR hard-working-backs. It's time for us to get respectable wages and benefits that other countries enjoy. The land of "opportunity" MUST be for ALL, not only for the 1%. 'We The People' must also hold politicians accountable for taking corporations bribes. Get them out of office. Wake the hell up my fellow Americans! 👿😡🤬
@À Strand Reagan finished stabbing us with the deepest knife, and today, both R's and Corporate D's are continuing the deed... We all need to revolt against these greedy bastards. Deport those foreigners with giant businesses that harms our fellow Americans, like: Rupert M. (Fox "News". Not even Australians want him back). He killed thousands of our people with disinformation, propaganda and lies. Elon Musk should go back to Africa and try the same shit he does here. Having a sector of his Tesla factory called "The Plantation", where only "black" people work is insane and evil. Just recently in Nigeria, the government kicked out a British business mogul for racism. He was deported, stripped from his visa and legal residence status. Maybe, we should start enforcing our immigration laws on the owners of those companies. NO one deserves to be treated that way. I don't care if the person is magenta, blue or peach. Stepping on us is NOT an option.
I dont' buy fron Amazon becuase of their union busting, and I don't buy from Starbucks for the same reason. They will only respond to one thing, reduced profits. There are plenty of other coffee companies and other stores selling the same thing as Amazon.
Yes. I agree. I worked 24 years in healthcare until retiring in 2021. The 1st and last time I ever had Starbucks was when a drug rep. ordered Starbucks coffee for our department. Nasty tasting coffee!. No thank you.
Knowing that Schultz drove by a Starbucks that morning to get a coffee made from one of his underpaid, overworked employees really just doesn't rub me the right way
He didn't. Many places and business serve Starbucks coffee whether it's a shop within the business or just reselling the coffee -- he for SURE didn't drive to get that coffee. Think of big corporate building lobby's, cafe's, etc. Congress has a ton of people working there all day they for sure have different shops people can buy goods from, and highly probably Starbucks is contracted to provide coffee
It's always bewildering and astonishing to me, that a CEO doesn't have the faintest idea what's going on with his company in the midst of a labor union struggle. I know what's going on, I know the labor laws, yet I'm not a business owner. I don't have a team of lawyers or a public relations agency informing me. Apparently, neither does Schultz.
Go get'em Bernies, "Make America the peoples' country again". For those need life hacks, try going to your grocery store, like the Indo Paks, look at the liquid flavoring. You might find your blend flavors is cheaper off the shelf compared to ScumBucks
I favor Folgers black silk try it and put a shake of salt in it when its brewing it knocks out any bitterness you might taste if it does seem bitter to you!😁
@@benjaminhenderson5025 you live in a dream world! The better healthcare is for the elites in Cuba, and not for the common man! You’d be happy to have a job union or no union if you lived in Cuba at way less than minimum wage in the US. And the first person that you would want to go after other than the dictator in Cuba would be somebody like Bernie Sanders who supports this kind of nonsense! Shows just how “smart” those on the left really are!
So what!!!! Bernie telling him the truth doesn’t do anything!!! Shultz doesn’t care!!!! Nothing will change because of it!!! Let’s fight to make money in politics a criminal activity with mandatory jail time!!!
The former Chairman and CEO of Starbucks continues to state his company was not breaking laws or impede those wanting to join a union but we have evidence to subjest lies being made from the former CEO.
Imagine how much different this country would have been today if someone who cared about workers and called out megacorporation BS had been elected president?
@@greghanlon2235 Not manufacturing anymore but intellectual property and patents is driven by the US. Becoming a Guatemala isn't the answer. Plus, war and nascar isn't that bad. 😂
@@chrislim7976 Intellectual property and patents are protected by laws and since when does China respect those? People hate the idea Bernie was going to gut the military, make college free and go after those bloodsucking corporations. You can have Nascar. I want peace and a world were kids start off life a 100 grand in debt.
@Chris Lim Exporting war isnt that bad. I guess we know the worth of your opinion. I'd put it at or below the intellectual level of the kids I teach. The more remedial ones anyway.
Those little penalties aren't enough How about every time Starbucks is found guilty of violating labor laws, they have to pay an additional 1% in federal taxes, non-negotiable
This is actually on the money. Wages tend to increase year over year; a fine is a one time payment. Increasing wages would cost the company more over time than a one-time fee would. Companies know this and would rather incur a fine than set a standard that results in less profit over time, like paying more wages or offering benefits
how about we shut them the fuck down by putting these people in prison and making sure they never employ another person again. any "punishment" that lets them continue to run this multi billion dollar business and accrue unfathomable sums of wealth is useless.
Coward Schultz is as believable as any other billionaire. Like every billionaire he lacks basic humanity otherwise he wouldn't hold on to billions of dollars. Some would have us believe we should allow people the ability to accumulate vast sums of wealth in order to encourage ambition. Those people are billionaires. Kill 'em All is a great album.
Worked there a decade ago, and I sensed the injustices but didn’t have the language to understand class struggle and the need for strong unions. Grateful to see such a huge shift in understanding our worth as workers. Keep at it unionizers, and thanks so much Bernie for advocating for us! ❤
There are two justice systems in America. One, you do a thing that is criminal, and you receive a punishment after being found out. The other says you have been found to be breaking laws, but that's ok because you are rich or are a corporation, and so laws don't apply to you the same or at all.
Just because you say you didn’t break the law, doesn’t mean you didn’t break the law. No one would be able to use that statement as an argument for their innocence.
I'm working at a store that is 17 years old, running on Dells and faulty ipads. I have no staff no matter how hard I try to keep them and I need to close my doors half the time because of how low-staffed my district is when we shouldn't have that issue with people calling about their applications every day. I really don't know what starbucks wants to be anymore, it's not the company I started at many years ago. I just want them to upgrade their stores and stop worrying so much about union-busting. by slamming down on them they have let all their other stores that are not union fall apart making no one win.
I worked at Starbucks in 2016 and my district manager was a wonderful man. He knew the names of every partner in his district and made us feel valued and listened to. He was fired. He was given no notice and stormed with an NDA. He had worked with Starbucks for over 30 years. Starbucks cares about NOTHING more than their bottom line. No amount of being an excellent employee could compare to what they stand to lose in benefits and their other promises and insensitives that would lead someone to give that much of their lives, conveniently close to retirement. Shame on Howard.
Howard Shultz has no shame. Calling Starbucks' servers "partners" is the same bs as calling Amazon packagers "associates". Its how they make a shit sandwich sound like a steak.
Douchebag CEOs in America today. END CITIZENS UNITED NOW!
I have an opinion on the right should be protected to organize and start unions. Period.
Schultz is doing exactly what any CEO should be doing. Deny and stall so that the corporation can keep extracting surplus value from workers and provide returns to shareholders. There isn't anything special about this one; it's systemic.
If you don't like the conditions, why not find a different more satisfying job?
That soulless smirk from Shultz tells you all you need to know.
I'd be laughing at Bernie the moron.
The Senator was grand standing & a circus actor - as usual - in these fake "hearings". The are choreographed guilt manufacturers for a predictable gullible public who ADORE and BEG for outrage. They are selling COFFEE! How great of pay or benefits do you think they can offer? Try it yourself and report back.
I mean, which smirk? Also, the constant eye rolling before he even got a chance to talk was all you needed to know.
All I know is that at 6:10 he's thinking he needs to remember to fire the barista that made his coffee that morning.
Schultz making sure the logo is facing the camera sums up what he is all about beautifully.
"Starbucks has not broken the law". What he meant to say is "Starbucks hired hundreds of lawyers that help us find loopholes so that we can grease ourselves and squeezes through the cracks so that the law can't completely apply to us. "
except they have according to judges that have found against them. He believes he is above the law.
Cream of the crop angry workers here.
LOLWUTT
NLRB says Starbucks has BROKEN THE LAW, MANY TIMES.
SO IN OTHER WORDS, they have not broken the law
"laws for thee, not for for me"
-Schultz, probably
12:45 "Oh, you'll have your chance"
Lmao, just keeps going. Like a multi billion dollar company hasn't already told their side of the story to attempt to demonize the workers for standing up for themselves.
That scowl, he so angy
Thank you that was effing infuriating hearing a billionaire whine about not being allowed to "share information" what a scuzzbag
@@ChrisLeeW00 ikr? Just wiped the smirk right off of his face.
Why is it so difficult for corporations, such as Star Bucks, to share more of their profits with their workers, unionized workers or not? The greed is incomprehensible.
I talk about that daily- “how much is enough?”
Because they dont want to set a precedent that workers and regular citizens have any power, rights or deserve any respect by giving even a fraction of an inch
In capitalism, money is power so you give as little power away as possible
The company has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders, not the customers or workers. It's actually against the law to pay the workers well if it takes away from shareholder compensation. Shareholders can sue if they are not happy with the wealth distribution. And the shareholders are protected by the corporate veil.
There exists in the finance world a certain concept: A fiduciary responsibility to maximize dividends for shareholders. The reasons that companies keep ramping up their stock buybacks, cutting more and more and more overhead from their workers, safety standards, equipment and materials are numerous, almost exclusively based on capitalist greed, but that fiduciary responsibility is a serious one.
at a recent strike in France, some of the workers left the picket line and bricked up the door to the CEOs office - to leave his office he had to climb down the outside of the building!
Oh hell yeah go France!
Should have used the guillotine: nothing sends a better message to the next CEO.
Why are they just allowed to dodge questions and ignore facts when presented with them? shit's so aggravating.
I’m NEVER buying Starbucks again.
6:06 the way he rotates the cup to center the starbucks logo in the camera as he hears the words “deny the constitutional right to form a union” is cartoonishly devilish
Schultz needs to be fined the minimum of $50 million or 5 years prison term for illegally and maliciously retaliating against unionizing Starbucks’ employees.
Not just fine... Need jail time, these asshats don't care about fine
Should have been arrested right there on the floor... Let's put real fear in the hearts of billionaire assholes like him across the country!
I'm more a fan of the guillotine myself.
He broke no laws hypocrite.
@@dennisreed3382 hypocrite? Do explain.
I will never understand why people don't realize we're subsidizing businesses when they don't pay their workers and we're handing out food stamps etc all on taxpayer expense
yeah they're "allegations" lmao cause the judge "allegedly" found them guilty
The problem is its "civil" so far criminal cases they know will go nowhere criminally . Because they got a ocean of lawyers and can delay delay delay delay. And government currently underfunds the people supposed to investigate these crimes and enforce them. Essentially 100,000 workers covered by 1 enforcement officer. Which its hard to is that alot or a little. But to give a little context 1/4 women experience sexual assault 68% of all workers experience wage theft. 61% have experienced or witnessed discrimination. Aka each enforcement agent has to deal with 50,000 PLUS cases. These are complex cases which take alot of legwork. Which is why alot of the time they stick with the easy cases aka employer fired me for being black said so in front of bunch of people. And left voicemail stating as much. Rather than the harder to prove cases. For example walmart has done similar closures. And its simply hard to prove because they close other stores keep records and essentially have a documented reason to close any store at any time. With loss statements and other things to make it "seem" reasonable and not because of union vote.
Even if government agency does fixate choose to pursue them if they stall agency may run out of steam. In meantime they fund politicians and if right politicians get elected they will replace agencys leadership. Who will either defund investigation or reassign most the staff or do anything in their power to kill it.
NO! You fall for the ancient, standard congressional grandstanding to feed the gullible public the outrage they hunger for. Think of the McCarthy days, etc etc. It works - you fell for it. If you start a bzns selling COFFEE, tell us how many benefits you can afford to pay. I ran a moderately profitable distribution bzns for 30 yrs. and can tell you that you need to open your eyes and think for a while - because you are simply wrong.
Best POTUS we'll never have 😔
Bernie 2024 please
@@jackh3242 Bernie never had a job in his life. Great role model.
@@kyleg8098 Awe define job crying snowflake 🤣
Hahahahahhahahahahahha😂😂😂
There's a reason for that. It's called Reality.
Hiding behind "safety concerns" what a coward. I'm done with Starbucks.
I will never go to Starbucks again.
13:30 This is the problem. Corporations are hyper focused on PR aimed at customers - because they factory farm us for our wallets - at the expense of the employees. The hidden point of giant corporations is accumulation of power by process of accumulating money, requiring the abuse of the employee. A business's first loyalty should always be the employee. Without them there is no business. It's a slow crawl to failure.
Schultz is a complete and utter slimeball. This interview sounded like such a whiney, defensive, "woe is me I'm so misunderstood" little brat.
Corporate America truly does treat American citizens like little more than a "herd" of consumers to be corralled and exploited. Hell, now that I think about it, our government is doing the same thing!
PEOPLE ARE AWAKENING TO CLASS POLITICS. it's enough to make a grown man cry... :)
I think they're proving just fine that there's plenty of business, and that it's dystopian. The key question is will the government impose meaningful penalties.
@@brandonvanevery5878nope. We got a couple (literally only) politicians willing to and able because of their positions, bring this shit to light…but actually holding them accountable..not gonna happen. The billionaire game is airtight, that’s why these fuckers don’t even sweat these hearings, not one bit.
@@ohio Yes, and I'm saying that's a problem. He doesn't really care about customers. He is spewing what he thinks will sell well to customers so he can make as much as he can for himself and his share holders in order to pay off politicians, making sure his corporation can remain a person (?!) and protect corporation and share holders from paying their fair share of taxes. The PR garbage, "We care oh so deeply for our customers," is an attempt to turn this into an Us (corporation and customers) vs Them (union workers and whiny employees) split, to hide this hoarding wealth/power habit, and justify abusing the employees to make sure it happens.
God, it's so sad how there's only one politician in my country that gives me hope for our future. Still love you Bernie, keep fighting ✊
Bernie never held a job in his life, lecturing someone who built a company. Bernie knows government…not hard work
I’ve been following Bernie since he first started appearing on TYT way back when Obama was president; it broke my heart when he was robbed by his own party in TWO different elections. After all this time, decades since he joined efforts to fight for black students in the 60s, he’s still out here swinging on our behalf. The only politician I’ve ever loved; I just wish we could do something cool for him just once by putting him in a position to do real change in the White House.
AOC is pretty good!
Feel the mf Bernnnnnnn 🔥
@@pugachevskobra5636 he never had a real job
Rid America of the oligarchs
America IS the oligarchs.
💯
Yeah, who's going to be allowed to vote for that?
@@paulstewart6293 That's why you strike, protest and riot. Everywhere. That is the beauty of democracy.
Freeze the country in its tracks.
Notice why the media isn't showing footage of the union strikes and mobilization in France? They don't want us getting any ideas here.
Unfortunately, to find now someone like Bernie Sanders are too far in few between. A rare breed.
Bernie Sanders continues to be one of the most persuasive arguments against term limits. We need many more like him in the government, actually representing and fighting for our basic needs, freedom, and dignity instead of the fascistic legion trying to strip us of our rights while catering to oligarchs and their corporations.
But he’s the exception, we really do need term limits, then we’ll have a better chance of voting in more like him.
a permanent political class, what could possibly go wrong? your comment should have started with "Deep Thoughts..." lmfao
@@Penny4thewin there are term limits, it's called voting.
Those persuasive arguments are really helping people on the grounds.
Right... a politician with a combined net worth of $8M between himself and his wife... owns 3 homes... and has never done anything constructive in his professional life... yeah, we need more of him in Congress. GTHOH Bernie Sanders is a talking head who is full of sound bites, she speaks loudly when he has the mic while trying to puff out his chest, but suddenly doesn't want to talk above a whisper when his hypocrisy is pointed out. He's absolutely worthless as a politician.
I WILL NEVER BUY STARBUCKS AGAIN
I worked 24 years in healthcare until retiring at 60 and happily leaving the rat race workforce in 2021. The 1st and last time I ever had Starbucks was when a drug rep. bought Starbucks coffee for our department. Nasty!. Life is much too short. I won’t waste my precious time or my hard earned money on Starbucks.
Why can’t these people be held responsible? I don’t understand why this takes so long. The judges have said Starbucks is at fault MULTIPLE times. So why? Just fine him or put him away for breaking rules.
The second amendment is the only way we’ve ever held these capitalists accountable. The tree of liberty is dying of thirst out there
Because we live in an oligarchy. It's not really a democracy, and it never was.
Sending love from Sweden. Solidarity knows no borders ❤️
USA system and laws should be changed to make the creation of unions easier to be approved.
It shouldn't be subject to approval at all, workers unions should be the *default* position.
Don't think unions are a panacea, just look at your public service sector. If Schultz had half a brain, he would do a form of profit sharing, give people a stake in the outcome of the company.
@@JB-yb4wnhe does in the form of sawdust crumb shares. The longer you're employed, the more you get, and you have the option to buy more. It's complicated and cryptic and I just know the young people working there have no idea what to do so it's easier to do nothing. What I want to see (I work for the Bux, can you tell) is individual store bonuses going to the employees proportionally so there's more personal pride in your store.
@@miscellane245
Even better, you get a piece of the action. This will likely give more incentive for the Buxters to work as a crew rather than serfs.
You only need two people to form a union.
I shouldn't have watched this, I was having such a chill and relaxing night. Now my dogs coming to check on me because I guess they can smell my blood pressure rising.
This Oligarchy needs to be pulled to the ground.
Only billionaires can quench the thirst of the tree of liberty
@@JohnDoe-my5ip well said
Amen! We must DEMAND it!
“judge found you broke the law a bunch, like, a whole bunch”
“nuh-uh”
While Bernie Sanders delivered this devastating verbal barrage, Joe Biden was sat in a corner eating his socks.
Mmmmmmm argyle 🤤
POS CEO smugly shakes his head at the beginning and sipping from his SB cup..... 🙄
Lowdown lying greedy billionaire.
Notice how he purposely re-adjusts the cup after putting it down so the cameras could see it? It was a total power move. He was saying my company is bigger than all of you can we can do what we damn well please.
@@Jason-kg3oc someone jealous?
That calmness makes billions of dollars. What's wrong with that?
@@chrislim7976 at the expense of fucking over your employees for $8 cups of shit-water. Yeah a real upstanding rich guy...
The one percent has been able to maintain the divisive method within the ninety nine percent. Which in turn has prevented the ninety percent to vote out the politicians that actually ONLY work for their one percent donors.
why does Bernie always look like he is working his ass off for the American people?...because he is...! #bringbackBernie ...!
He's a multimillionaire that doesn't own a comb.
@@chrislim7976 first honest thing you have said.
How crazy is it that he uses this as an advertisement opportunity. Notice how when he drinks coffee he makes the logo clearly visible to the camera.
👏 Bernie Rocks 🪨
Power to the unions, to the people!
Down with billionaires 🔥
Bernie is a bum
Bernie is a multi millionaire.
😂
@Chris Lim Its funny you think that actually matters. Context is a real thing, you should look into it.
@@benjaminhenderson5025
How do think Bernie makes his money, Forrest?
You might want to add a little irony in your cup of context.
😂
@@chrislim7976 there’s nothing ironic or hypocritical about him having money you dolt. Labor reformers/democratic socialists/socialists do not have any problems with people making money. We have a problem with people making money by exploiting others, and there is nothing exploitative about the way he made his money.
Boycott every single non-union Starbucks.
Unions should be mandatory for larger corporations. Otherwise, the corporation will destroy our social fabric.
I love bernie. I wish democratic primary voters weren't so foolish.
Or the DNC, 2016 it was all "Her turn". Hillary was a trash candidate. She only accepted legalized gay marriage in 2013. What a conservative Democrat.
And that the DNC wasn't led by stale old "New Democrats/Third Way" factionists whose neoliberal heyday was in the 80s and 90s.
They weren't I3eck vs I)I\|C. Look into it.
They CANCELLED both of our bargaining meetings. Starbucks did. No reason. Last minute.
How much do you get paid?
Interesting that under the RICO statutes, embezzling union funds is a crime; Obstruction of Justice is a crime; but, criminally obstructing legal union organizing isn't covered.
That's pretty convenient.
👏😀💯 AGREE!
Think about who writes the laws and who funds those people
How many times can a business owner knowingly not follow court orders before they are arrested.
Bernie should be President
🥺 this country failed when Bernie lost.
He should sell one of his mansions he benefited from Capitalism and give me the reparations as I so rightly deserve.
@@amberfitzsimons Very Republican of you...
@@amberfitzsimons do you mean his home or his one vacation house? And do you personally deserve reparations? Because if you do I think it would probably be more fair if everyone chipped in and perhaps also paid out everyone else who deserves them. Also, is it "capitalism" to be paid by the state to be a mayor and senator? Because if it's not then I don't think he used capitalism to buy his homes.
@@amberfitzsimons I notice that you do not ask that of Schultz. Who is many thousands of times wealthier.
6:04 You see how much attention Schultz gives his branded cup when he sets it down. He's not even listening he just wants to make sure the logo is fully visible to the camera.
It's like the movie "Liar, Liar" where the one guy says "so all we gotta do is lie, that's easy enough". And this is real life.
They should arrest him and replace him. He won't change, so regulate ALL corporations.
Arrest him with what.
How old are you 😂
Historically speaking, the second amendment is how we dealt with capitalist swine like Schultz. He was in grave danger at that captive audience meeting and he is far too stupid to realize it. Jury nullification would free whoever did it too, guarantee it. Billionaires shouldn’t exist. One way or another, this second gilded age will end.
@@chrislim7976 With Union busting, you dolt.
@Chris Lim contempt, perjury, intentional violation of labor laws. That's just to start.
He already stepped down on Friday. Two weeks early.
LETS GOOOOO!!!!!!!! UNION UNION UNION!!! FOR THE PEOPLE!!! WE ARE THE Country NOT THE GOVERNMENT!
Such a stupid statement. Union bosses buy democrat politicians. Then they give your union dues to democrats who ruin the economy. Unions ruined the USA industry. Then taxpayers were on the hook as usual. Liberals have ruin inner city after inner city. It’s why people are leaving ny and California for Florida and Texas
i no longer buy my coffee from StarSucks in Michigan.
"Partners" would be accurate if Starbucks had profit-sharing.
Profit sharing? Let someone else grow a business step in as an employee and expect a share of their profits? Wow never thought of that would the profit be enough?
@@elizabethtaylor7833 I’m unsure what you mean by “would the profit be enough?” Profit is always excess of expenses, it’s their net income, it’s their take home. To answer your question simply, yes, there would be enough profit to share
I am boycotting starbucks - lots of indie carts/shops.
I love Bernie. He has always stood up for us, the 99%.
We need more people like Bernie because he fights for all of us, regardless which side of the aisle we stand upon.
Uber worse than Starbucks.
Bernie sanders should talk about uber Is enslaving drivers also
Tougher problem to broach.
Politicians talking accomplishes nothing.
Workers revolting makes the world stop in its tracks.
It's time we stop expecting speech from politicians to make a difference.
Yeah, the whole Giga economy needs a colostomy.
@@Matthew.E.Kelly.
I agree
More than half of you snowflakes use Uber, Amazon and iPhones.
😂
Won't go to Starbucks any longer!!!
They have also shut down a LOT of Stores before they could unionize. We saw that here in MA in several locations (they have claimed other reasons for the shut downs, but pretty much those were excuses and not reality).
Bernie almost said "Star Wars workers" at one point, lol
I never buy or drink DevilBucks
We need harsher laws for these corporations. Every employee in the US should be unionized. If they hire anyone without a union, it will only mean that they'll illegally hire cheap labor from other countries. To fix that problem, they would also need to be unionized with a time limit permit to work here. If any corporation breaks the laws, they should not only pay a huge fine, (that leaves a dent on their bottom line) but they should be shut down for good if they repeat the offense. Enough abuse on our citizens.
Many foreigners come here, open shops and become billionaires on OUR hard-working-backs. It's time for us to get respectable wages and benefits that other countries enjoy. The land of "opportunity" MUST be for ALL, not only for the 1%. 'We The People' must also hold politicians accountable for taking corporations bribes. Get them out of office. Wake the hell up my fellow Americans! 👿😡🤬
Why don't you open a shop instead of crying.
@À Strand Reagan finished stabbing us with the deepest knife, and today, both R's and Corporate D's are continuing the deed...
We all need to revolt against these greedy bastards. Deport those foreigners with giant businesses that harms our fellow Americans, like: Rupert M. (Fox "News". Not even Australians want him back). He killed thousands of our people with disinformation, propaganda and lies. Elon Musk should go back to Africa and try the same shit he does here. Having a sector of his Tesla factory called "The Plantation", where only "black" people work is insane and evil.
Just recently in Nigeria, the government kicked out a British business mogul for racism. He was deported, stripped from his visa and legal residence status. Maybe, we should start enforcing our immigration laws on the owners of those companies. NO one deserves to be treated that way. I don't care if the person is magenta, blue or peach. Stepping on us is NOT an option.
@À Strand the founders understand that humans, given the chance, are nasty wee bastards and they have to be kept in check. We still haven't learned.
Harsher laws mean nothing to someone who has no intention of following them
@@forestpagan4813 Yep, because the system is made to protect them.
We love you Bernie.... Keep up the good fight
I dont' buy fron Amazon becuase of their union busting, and I don't buy from Starbucks for the same reason. They will only respond to one thing, reduced profits. There are plenty of other coffee companies and other stores selling the same thing as Amazon.
Me too!
STARBUCKS ⁉️🤔 🤮
Hey, i have to use up the free gift card that I have so they don't get that money for free.
Yes. I agree. I worked 24 years in healthcare until retiring in 2021. The 1st and last time I ever had Starbucks was when a drug rep. ordered Starbucks coffee for our department. Nasty tasting coffee!. No thank you.
Bernie got him on perjury. Schultz is so egotistical, he thinks he's getting away with this.
Timestamp?
@@Yakuzachris10 minute 13
Knowing that Schultz drove by a Starbucks that morning to get a coffee made from one of his underpaid, overworked employees really just doesn't rub me the right way
Underrated comment!
He didn't. Many places and business serve Starbucks coffee whether it's a shop within the business or just reselling the coffee -- he for SURE didn't drive to get that coffee. Think of big corporate building lobby's, cafe's, etc. Congress has a ton of people working there all day they for sure have different shops people can buy goods from, and highly probably Starbucks is contracted to provide coffee
Way for a CEO to say « I just don’t care and I don’t have the time to think about my employees. Not my priority and not my responsibility »
Yep, notice he said he was focused on customers, not employees - that said it all
Sounds like blatant perjury, judges said he broke the law, he said they didn't and said they are accusations, perjury
No more Starbucks for me!
Now you're not going to Starbucks?
This is the level of intelligence on these posts. 😂
@@davidh4129 I travel all the time. A lot of times Starbucks is the only choice.
@@chrislim7976 do you feel better?
@@peace_love_infinitepossibi6651
Do you say that a lot? 😂
@Peace_Love_Infinite Possibilities he's a useless libertarian troll. Don't spend to much effort.
judge: literally found starbucks guilty
coward: those are allegations
Bernie dropped the hammer on this guy lmao
Time to boycott Starbucks or write to the managers and CEOs. Period.
It's always bewildering and astonishing to me, that a CEO doesn't have the faintest idea what's going on with his company in the midst of a labor union struggle. I know what's going on, I know the labor laws, yet I'm not a business owner. I don't have a team of lawyers or a public relations agency informing me. Apparently, neither does Schultz.
🇺🇲💯 Bernie for the People 2024!!! 💯🇺🇲
Thank you Bernie!
Who let him have a starbucks coffee cup sitting there?
Give’em HELL BERNIE!
Bernie is a millionaire. Just another day playing you snowflakes. 😂
@@chrislim7976 He's literally in court fighting for workers rights
@@korpen2858
The right to be exploited by unions vs your employer.
@@chrislim7976 Exploited by unions? How so?
@@korpen2858
I assume you're either joking or a kid.
Start locking these law breakers up and see how fast they change their tune!
Otherwise why even have laws?!
The way hes sits there not giving a shit only making sure the branding on his mug is properly facing the cameras makes me die inside.
Sociopaths
Go get'em Bernies, "Make America the peoples' country again".
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Heh Bernie make America Cuba
@Hecules As long as america doesnt embargo us, sign me up. They have better healthcare and less oligarchy.
@@benjaminhenderson5025 you live in a dream world! The better healthcare is for the elites in Cuba, and not for the common man! You’d be happy to have a job union or no union if you lived in Cuba at way less than minimum wage in the US. And the first person that you would want to go after other than the dictator in Cuba would be somebody like Bernie Sanders who supports this kind of nonsense! Shows just how “smart” those on the left really are!
Until these rich CEOs do some time, nothing will ever happen.
On a single store basis....such a terrible human.
Go Bernie Go 🎉!
I live in Vermont and met Bernie. He is awesome. It’s in my uploads.
So what!!!! Bernie telling him the truth doesn’t do anything!!! Shultz doesn’t care!!!! Nothing will change because of it!!! Let’s fight to make money in politics a criminal activity with mandatory jail time!!!
You understand how Bernie makes money right? 😂
The former Chairman and CEO of Starbucks continues to state his company was not breaking laws or impede those wanting to join a union but we have evidence to subjest lies being made from the former CEO.
Imagine how much different this country would have been today if someone who cared about workers and called out megacorporation BS had been elected president?
USA would have the GDP of Guatemala?
@@chrislim7976 What do we export now besides war?
@@greghanlon2235
Not manufacturing anymore but intellectual property and patents is driven by the US.
Becoming a Guatemala isn't the answer.
Plus, war and nascar isn't that bad. 😂
@@chrislim7976 Intellectual property and patents are protected by laws and since when does China respect those? People hate the idea Bernie was going to gut the military, make college free and go after those bloodsucking corporations. You can have Nascar. I want peace and a world were kids start off life a 100 grand in debt.
@Chris Lim Exporting war isnt that bad. I guess we know the worth of your opinion. I'd put it at or below the intellectual level of the kids I teach. The more remedial ones anyway.
Bernie - “Federal judge found Starbucks guilty”
Schultz - “These are allegations”
Facts mean nothing to this guy
There are judgments. Those are indeed facts.
Those little penalties aren't enough
How about every time Starbucks is found guilty of violating labor laws, they have to pay an additional 1% in federal taxes, non-negotiable
This is an idea I can get behind. Skin in the game, they’d get in line
This is actually on the money. Wages tend to increase year over year; a fine is a one time payment. Increasing wages would cost the company more over time than a one-time fee would.
Companies know this and would rather incur a fine than set a standard that results in less profit over time, like paying more wages or offering benefits
how about we shut them the fuck down by putting these people in prison and making sure they never employ another person again. any "punishment" that lets them continue to run this multi billion dollar business and accrue unfathomable sums of wealth is useless.
Coward Schultz is as believable as any other billionaire. Like every billionaire he lacks basic humanity otherwise he wouldn't hold on to billions of dollars. Some would have us believe we should allow people the ability to accumulate vast sums of wealth in order to encourage ambition. Those people are billionaires. Kill 'em All is a great album.
Pretty good product placement there Howard!😂
Feel the Bern, Shultz! 😢
Get him Boerne.
Solidarity to the workers of this country. We will have to take action eventually.
Worked there a decade ago, and I sensed the injustices but didn’t have the language to understand class struggle and the need for strong unions. Grateful to see such a huge shift in understanding our worth as workers. Keep at it unionizers, and thanks so much Bernie for advocating for us! ❤
9:50 The audience's reaction to this guy's BS 💀
Thank You SO much for doing this episode.
#BERNIE2024!
Every sector should unionize. The benefits outweigh the arguments against it.
There are two justice systems in America. One, you do a thing that is criminal, and you receive a punishment after being found out. The other says you have been found to be breaking laws, but that's ok because you are rich or are a corporation, and so laws don't apply to you the same or at all.
POV: you're lying under oath
I love having a staunch new dealer in office.
Just because you say you didn’t break the law, doesn’t mean you didn’t break the law. No one would be able to use that statement as an argument for their innocence.
I'm working at a store that is 17 years old, running on Dells and faulty ipads. I have no staff no matter how hard I try to keep them and I need to close my doors half the time because of how low-staffed my district is when we shouldn't have that issue with people calling about their applications every day. I really don't know what starbucks wants to be anymore, it's not the company I started at many years ago. I just want them to upgrade their stores and stop worrying so much about union-busting. by slamming down on them they have let all their other stores that are not union fall apart making no one win.
I’ve watched this in its entirety 3 x. It keeps getting better every time. Thank you Bernie!
Recommend the full video- the sb workers are perfect!
We only have a few decades left of Bernie, but for these corpos, I hope it feels like an eternity.
France had the solution for people thinking they are kings.
9:51 Bernie Sanders is unfazed to that response because he has seen multiple corporate oligarchs lie to the congress.