Starbucks Worker Says He Was Fired For Union Organizing And To Create Fear

[News Puppet]

Gabriel Ocasio Mejias worked as a barista at Starbucks in Orlando international airport for two years before he was fired on 18 February, shortly after he emerged as one of the leading organizers to unionize his co-workers with labor union Unite Here.

"I was fired three hours after another union organizer was fired," Mejias told the Guardian. "They took me to the back of the food court, in a dimly lit area, and a manager fired me over a third write-up for drinking water. That was their way to get rid of me, for drinking water, because they know I was one of the strongest organizers. They targeted me specifically to create fear for my co-workers of joining the union."

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Starbucks Worker Says He Was Fired

For Union Organizing And 'To Create Fear'

[sporkium]

that fancy keurig i saw at the store... it will never form a union.

[srijantje]

and I will never work for starbucks or drink their shite