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Fenrir Larsen, a 28-year-old barista at Starbucks<\/a>, loves coffee. He tells Fortune<\/em> he \u201ccould talk to you about coffee for a long time,\u201d waxing rhapsodic about the way it\u2019s grown (one tree makes just one pound<\/a> of coffee), the history of the bean, the chemistry of roasting, even the unroasted coffee cherries, or green coffee, that flavors Refreshers<\/a> with a taste more like juice.<\/p>\n

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Other things he loves: the company he works for\u2014and its union.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always really enjoyed Starbucks as a company,\u201d he told Fortune, <\/em>and that\u2019s why he\u2019s \u201cso interested in staying with Starbucks and seeing what it could be with the union effort.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Larsen has been a Starbucks employee most of his adult life. He\u2019s worked at different stores in Washington and Reno for nearly nine years and has moved through the ranks from barista to shift manager, assistant store manager and then store manager\u2013but he stepped back down to a shift supervisor to join the union after, he said, \u201ca hard time getting management to hear me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really about Starbucks\u2019 labor model, he explained. The labor model the company uses to schedule employees is sales-based. Each store gets a number of labor hours dependent on its recent sales and seasonal shifts like holidays. The issues that workers are facing include weeks when there aren\u2019t enough labor hours for them to earn enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of hour cuts across the country,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cmaybe the hours will go down next week, but there\u2019s still the same amount of staff.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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