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Starbucks shift supervisors demanding pay raises in Boston

January 18, 2013

Shift supervisors at Starbucks cafes in Boston are demanding pay raises after a recent Massachusetts court decision banned them from sharing in tip pools.

The Industrial Workers of the World Starbucks Workers Union, according to The Boston Globe, sent a petition with 300 signatures to company headquarters requesting compensation to make up for their 10- to 20-percent "de facto pay cut," as a result of the ruling.

A U.S. Court of Appeals in November upheld a lower court's ruling that found Starbucks Corp. owed the state's baristas more than $14 million for allowing supervisors to share their tips.

Jaime Riley, a Starbucks spokeswoman, told the Boston Globe that the chain is devising a new operations structure for company-owned Massachusetts cafes to address the issue.

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