[hellotomyrars]

We don’t know what they asked for or what Starbucks thinks it will cost them. EDIT: I saw the list of the demands and they are incredibly reasonable. Like, this is how a human being deserves to be treated reasonable.

The real point of Starbucks doing this isn’t to avoid having to cut into their profit margins a bit in that location but to suppress unionization in their other locations.

They have to shut it down early and often, or they’ll actually have to go to the table with a Union and that idea makes them crap their pants.

They would rather lose all profit from that location and send the message that unionization will get you fired.