Is Starbucks Anti-Union?

You may have heard recently about the whole Starbucks debacle where a Starbucks in Minneapolis is actually being charged with 17 counts of labor rights violations. Shocking! As it turns out, this is actually not Starbucks's first rodeo because they were recently charged under the same counts and convicted in a federal court in New York. Basically, Starbucks has been hurting due to their decline in sales from the recession so they are laying off and cutting hours, while expecting the remaining employees to bear the brunt of the workload. The employees then formed a union to protect themselves, and Starbucks has been allegedly treating them unfairly and trying to bust up their union practices. This seems shocking in this day and age, but maybe it goes hand-in-hand with all of the trends that we are seeing in home coffee brewing that been on the rise lately. Is it time to become your own barista?