A group of employees from Peet’s Coffee’s Chicago store have launched a public campaign to improve working conditions at their store and, hopefully, throughout the company — and there’s a chance management might actually be listening. The organization, aptly titled Peet’s Workers Group, sent a formal request for living wages and better benefits to Peet’s’ corporate brass earlier this month; representatives from the group say their request was met with much more interest than they expected, and a meeting is set for next Tuesday, September 18. Of course, there’s no telling how that meeting will go, but employees are optimistic. “This is a step, and we’ll see how it goes, and if it doesn’t go well, we’ll address it as it happens,” said one employee — who, for all the optimism, still asked to be kept anonymous for fear of retribution from his higher-ups.
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