Tell Blue Bottle: No Contract, No Customers!
Karl Strovink, Blue Bottle CEO
For a year Blue Bottle baristas have been negotiating for a strong contract with our Nestlé-owned employer. While our priority has been to secure the changes in the workplace which would dramatically improve our lives -- a living wage, consistent schedules, protection from harassment, and a democratic workplace --Blue Bottle has shown their baristas nothing but disdain. Our union members have walked out multiple times this year. Now, we need customers to strike with us!
Sign the No Contract, No Customers pledge to demonstrate to Blue Bottle that our customers support baristas having wages that they can live off of. By signing the pledge, you agree that you will stop patronizing Blue Bottle Coffee if we call for a boycott.
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To:
Karl Strovink, Blue Bottle CEO
From:
[Your Name]
Dear Mr. Strovink,
I am writing to you as a [customer/employee/community member] of Blue Bottle Coffee to tell you that I cannot in good conscience support an establishment which treats their workers with such disdain. Without baristas Blue Bottle would not be able to keep open any of their cafés, and yet baristas struggle to make ends meet. Blue Bottle Coffee operates in the most expensive cities in the country but does not pay their baristas enough to live in those cities. It is a moral travesty that your billion-dollar business pays baristas poverty wages,forcing them skip meals, sell blood plasma, or live out of their cars!
I am disappointed that your chain would rather retaliate against union members and negotiate in bad faith than grant your workforce the living wages that they need to survive. For this reason, should the Blue Bottle Independent Union call for it, I will stop patronizing Blue Bottle Coffee until your baristas have a fair contract.
Sincerely,