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Dozens of bison shot to death in Colorado
"Case looks like ‘random shooting that’s completely egregious,’ expert says."
Starbucks Must Pay $100 million in Back Tips
"California judge rules supervisors can not take share of gratuities."
This recent buffalo slaughter in Colorado is reminiscent of the wholesale slaughter of buffalo in the 1800's for nothing more than "sport." Have we not evolved any since then?
Starbucks earned 672 million dollars in profit last year but they won't pay their supervisors living wages. They augment their pathetic supervisory pay by allowing the supervisors to take a substantial amount of the tips customers leave for the hourly wage baristas. While this landmark case involves only Starbucks employees in California it will soon affect us here in Salida. After all, there are, not one but two, Starbucks opening up in Salida this year. (One in the local Safeway and one in the local McDonalds.) Will local Salidans be very willing to tip their Starbucks baristas knowing that a significant portion of their tips doesn't go to those baristas but rather to the managers of those Starbucks? Will they be willing to pay top dollar for coffee and then tip on top of that knowing that Starbucks profits while both the employees and the managers are utterly dependent on tips to make a living? What's your opinion on this? Click the "comments" link to share your opinion.
"Case looks like ‘random shooting that’s completely egregious,’ expert says."
Starbucks Must Pay $100 million in Back Tips
"California judge rules supervisors can not take share of gratuities."
This recent buffalo slaughter in Colorado is reminiscent of the wholesale slaughter of buffalo in the 1800's for nothing more than "sport." Have we not evolved any since then?
Starbucks earned 672 million dollars in profit last year but they won't pay their supervisors living wages. They augment their pathetic supervisory pay by allowing the supervisors to take a substantial amount of the tips customers leave for the hourly wage baristas. While this landmark case involves only Starbucks employees in California it will soon affect us here in Salida. After all, there are, not one but two, Starbucks opening up in Salida this year. (One in the local Safeway and one in the local McDonalds.) Will local Salidans be very willing to tip their Starbucks baristas knowing that a significant portion of their tips doesn't go to those baristas but rather to the managers of those Starbucks? Will they be willing to pay top dollar for coffee and then tip on top of that knowing that Starbucks profits while both the employees and the managers are utterly dependent on tips to make a living? What's your opinion on this? Click the "comments" link to share your opinion.
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