'I wanted to make this job worth having:' Michigan Starbucks workers join the union fight

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2022/06/i-wanted-to-make-this-job-worth-having-michigan-starbucks-workers-join-the-union-fight.html

Published: Jun. 12, 2022, 8:44 a.m.

By Lindsay Moore | lmoore@mlive.com

Hannah Whitbeck was shocked when she was fired from her position as shift manager at an Ann Arbor Starbucks. Three years and no prior write-ups, she didn’t understand why she was being terminated from a job she loved. Earlier that day she even brought in cookies for the staff to boost morale the Monday after a busy weekend.

“I gave my everything to the store and it just felt like it was just ripped out of my hands over nothing,” she said.

The timing of the termination — just weeks after a union election hearing Whitbeck organized — felt suspicious.

The formal reason for her termination was in response to a disagreement with another shift supervisor almost two months earlier.

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