Coffee Shop Workers Who Voted to Unionize Protest Chain Shutting Down

We’re never sure if we’re supposed to boycott Starbucks or not. They offer their employees good benefits, including college tuition, but apparently aren’t doing enough about the genocide in Gaza. 

The ready solution was to patronize your local coffee shop instead. That’s going to be tougher in Philadelphia, where OFC Coffee has just shut down its three stores just a week after employees voted to unionize. And now the employees are protesting to bring their capitalist oppressor back:

This reminds us of all of the layoffs when California decided to raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers only to $20 an hour. (Gavin Newsom donor Panera was exempted as they sold bread.)

They should open one of those “anti-capitalist” coffee shops with a “pay what you can” business model.

Now they’ll have more free time to pursue their activism.

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