00:58The voices of everyday working people are not amplified with the volume that management
01:23so easily receives.
01:25Like so many working people across this city, these are not demands of greed.
01:34These are demands for decency.
01:37These are workers who are simply being asked to be treated with the respect that they deserve.
01:44They're being asked that their labor be repaid in a manner that allows them to build a dignified life.
01:51And I join them because I want to do everything that I can to show my solidarity.
01:57But also because I know that far too often, the voices of everyday working people are not amplified with the volume that management so easily receives.
02:07So I want to share a few numbers with you here this afternoon.
02:11Numbers that I hope will place this struggle into some sense of perspective.
02:16$36.2 billion.
02:19That is the amount of money that Starbucks made in revenue just last year.
02:23$95.8 million.
02:28That's the compensation package that Starbucks CEO Brian Nickel earned for four months of work last year.
02:35$6,666.
02:41That is how much times larger nickels pay was than the average Starbucks barista salary.
02:47$400.
02:50That is how many labor law violations the NLRB has found that Starbucks has committed.
02:56$120.
02:59$120.
03:00That's the amount of stores that are on strike.
03:02And $85.
03:03The number of cities that they are taking place in.
03:06Now what these numbers show us are a two-pronged picture.
03:12On one side, corporate greed and self-enrichment at the cost of its own workers.
03:17And on the other, remarkable solidarity by those workers who have been exploited and mistreated time and time again.
03:24Solidarity, as much as we speak of it, we have to remember, is not an abstract concept.
03:30It is measured in picket lines stood on in the rain and in the sleet.
03:35It is measured in rent payments that workers do not know if they will be able to meet.
03:39Childcare bills they do not know whether they will be able to afford.
03:43And it is measured in strangers who have never met one another.
03:48Linking arms to fight for a shared goal and a fairer future.
03:52It is an honor for my wife and me to be here with you.
03:58To stand with striking Starbucks workers who are telling this company they are sick and tired of corporate greed.
04:10And sick and tired of union busting.
04:13That's right!
04:15And what the mayor-elect just pointed out is that what is happening here on this picket line is happening all over this country.
04:27We are living in an economy where the people on top have never, ever had it so good.
04:35You are one man owning more wealth than the bottom 52% of American households.
04:43And while the CEOs make unbelievable salaries, 60% of our people in Vermont, in New York City, all over this country are living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to pay the rent, struggling to pay for healthcare, struggling to put food on the table.
05:08And what Saran and I are dedicated to is creating a nation and an economy which works for all of us, not just the 1%.
05:21That's right!
05:23So I just want to thank the Starbucks workers for their courage here and around this country.
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