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Union report finds black baristas in airport Starbucks earn a median wage that’s $1.85 lower than for white baristas
Black baristas earn a median wage of $11.15 an hour at airport Starbucks, while Latinx baristas earn $12.67, and white baristas earn $13, according to a pay study conducted across 142 stores in 27 airports by hospitality workers’ union Unite Here, the Boston Globe reports.
This assertion of a pay gap, based on data collected between February and October 2019, has been published in a new report by Unite Here alongside other findings about working conditions in airport Starbucks. According to the report, those stores did not close for the day of racial bias training that affected 8,000 company-owned stores across the U.S. The report also alleges that LGBTQ workers have been misgendered, and that some immigrant workers have been told by managers to stop speaking their preferred language at work.
Starbucks touts progressive employment policies like trans health benefits and 100 percent pay equity across all genders and races in its stores, but airport Starbucks are operated separately, typically by highway and airport food-service company HMSHost, which had an exclusive partnership with Starbucks until earlier this year.
HMSHost has called the racial pay disparities allegation “completely untrue” and part of a union effort to “[exert] pressure and [gain] leverage.” In the Unite Here report, HMSHost attributed pay disparities within airport stores in part to to the average length of tenure of different racial groups. But, as Unite Here notes, the food-service company doesn’t explain why some racial groups last longer in their HMSHost jobs than others.
Starbucks, on its part, has declined or not responded to requests for comment from multiple news outlets.
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- Area Canadian man gets a lot more cream cheese on his McDonald’s bagel than he expected, enjoys brief brush with virality. [Yahoo Lifestyle]
More photos of this monstrosity. I ordered extra cream cheese as they usually just apply it like butter, but this is clearly just an exercise in passive-aggressiveness. How do I possibly eat this? pic.twitter.com/XM70yMrnqp
— (@BryanPassifiume) February 25, 2020
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