Overland Park 'Furry' Barista Fights For Starbucks Union Rights

The struggle to unionize Starbucks continues and takes a noteworthy turn . . .

ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE UNION MOVEMENT IS A BRAVE "FURRY" WHO REFUTES NEGATIVE CHARACTERIZATIONS FROM STARBUCKS MANAGEMENT!!!

Context . . . 

The furry fandom is a subculture interested in anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics. Examples of anthropomorphic attributes include exhibiting human intelligence and facial expressions, speaking, walking on two legs, and wearing clothes. The term "furry fandom" is also used to refer to the community of people who gather on the internet and at furry conventions.

Now, check the testimony . . .

"Michael Vestigo wasn’t sure, at first, if he wanted to bring his fursuit to the union rally in Seattle.

Starbucks fired Vestigo from the Starbucks store in Overland Park, Kansas, on April 1—a week after he and his co-workers staged a walkout to protest unsafe working conditions and retaliation from management against their unionization efforts.

That morning, his manager pulled him aside and fired him effective immediately for “displaying violent and threatening behavior,” he told me.

“I'm not that kind of person at all,” Vestigo said. He has social anxiety, and in a job review meeting, he cited “trouble standing up for myself” as a weakness. “It's my personal belief that they took that and they basically targeted me because they thought I would just kind of take it lying down,” he said. Their tiny store—made up of a small staff in a building that Vestigo describes as the size of a couple of shipping containers pressed together to make a drive-through and pickup window—won its union vote a week later, on April 8, making it the first unionized Starbucks in Kansas City."

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Take a peek at TYT talk about the situation via www.TonysKansasCity.com link/embed . . .

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