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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/business/starbucks-union-rhodes-scholar.html

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Why a Rhodes Scholar’s Ambition Led Her to a Job at Starbucks - The New York Times

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6/19/22 at 9:00am

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Noam Scheiber

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By contrast, many of Ms. Brisack’s Rhodes classmates express reservations about the market-oriented policies of the ’80s and ’90s and strong support for unions. The fight in Buffalo Ms. Brisack moved to Buffalo after Oxford for another job, as an organizer with the union Workers United, where a mentor she had met in college also worked. A few hours later, Ms. Brisack, Ms. Moore and Michelle Eisen, a longtime Starbucks employee also involved in the organizing, gathered with two union lawyers at the union office in a onetime auto plant. The union accused the company of running a racially divisive campaign, and Ms. Brisack was disillusioned by the loss.

Jaz Brisack became a barista for the same reasons that talented young people have long chosen their career paths: a mix of idealism and ambition.

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