Hernandez added that spending so much of their waking life working and worrying about money is exhausting: “I don’t have time to hang out with people. Quite frankly: I work, I go home. And then I go work some more.”
In an age where so much of their lives exists online or at work, unionization, they said, is one of the only ways they’ve been able to foster a genuine connectedness.
“My generation is lacking in a feeling of community,” Hernandez said. “It’s a sense of community for us to organize in this way and then to watch all the other stores organize — we’re being connected to each other in a way we haven’t seen before.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/03/04/starbucks-employees-unionizing/
btw i was in a zoom call the dsa ran with several SBU organizers and i think literally every single SBU organizer there was nonbinary. absolutely do not mind but why is this a thing
uh might have been restaurant organizers in general actually