baristas at 50 locations throughout the U.S. are starting a three-day strike on Friday, saying the company isn’t bargaining fairly with recently unionized stores.
The walkout underlines the rising tension between the coffee giant and its union employees, who have tried to secure a collective-bargaining agreement for more than a year without success. While the campaign has so far organized only a small fraction of Starbucks’ 9,000 corporate-run US locations, it has spread rapidly across the country this year. It helped inspire similar first-ever organizing victories at other companies, such as Apple Inc., Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. and Trader Joe’s Co.
US National Labor Relations Board regional directors have issued dozens of complaints accusing Starbucks of breaking the law to defeat the union campaign, including by excluding unionized stores from new benefits.
shame on the people who still go to these starbucks for the coffee. not only you are pretentious you are also adding to this elitist over common people culture.