More than 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers plan to strike at 65 U.S. stores Thursday to protest a lack of progress in labor negotiations with the company.
The strike was intended to disrupt Starbucks’ Red Cup Day, which is typically one of the company’s busiest days of the year. Since 2018, Starbucks has given out free, reusable cups on that day to customers who buy a holiday drink.
Starbucks Workers United, the union organizing Starbucks baristas, said stores in 45 cities would be impacted, including New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, San Diego, St. Louis, Dallas, Columbus, Ohio, and Starbucks’ home city of Seattle. There is no date set for the strike to end, and more stores are prepared to join if Starbucks doesn’t reach a contract agreement with the union, organizers said.
Oh, the workers of the company just want a fair shake? Sorry, we have to pay for our super-commuting CEO’s daily plane trips up and down the west coast
Strike at all the locations let’s goooo
How dare you say, the peasants should earn a fair share of the wealth they generate?
Does no one think of the poor billionaires anyomore?
Can’t those workers just eat cake instead of going on strike?
Starbucks workers deserve more. My work’s on-site Starbucks is a staffed by a catering company, so I’m not sure about their status.
Frankly, Starbucks workers need to quit en mass if they want to see change. The only way you’ll get these companies to listen is through a general strike. Stop working. It’s only here in the US that people make up excuses as to why it can’t happen.
Get organized at the local level, create food pantries for affected workers, and pool money together for bills. The fact that we are so divided as a country that a mere thought of a community is seen as “communism.”
The entire point of a union and the dues they collect is precisely for this reason, to pay them while they’re striking. Also, by remaining employees of the company, it’s a little more difficult for them to just fire people for doing so. If they quit, the company’ll just hire scabs.
Get organized at the local level, create food pantries for affected workers, and pool money together for bills. The fact that we are so divided as a country that a mere thought of a community is seen as “communism.”
… With what food and money? Serious question, I’m not trying to be an ass. If nobody has enough of their own savings, nobody is working because we’re on strike, where are we getting this food and money with which to maintain our community?
I’m open to this idea, but myself and most everyone else in my local community are afraid for their lives and livelihoods. It would take us roughly around 3-6 weeks to become so resource starved that we either die, or return to laboring under probably a worse deal than we left in the first place. Six weeks of no income isn’t even going to make a noticeable dent in the pocketbook of the Starbucks CEO.
I must say, Gordon, you come at a very opportune time. Alyx has just installed the final piece for our resurrected labor strike. It’s a Red Cup Day!
Where in Columbus Ohio? The Westerville location? I want to drive by and honk in support
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fucking do it already lets go this riot and these civil disobediences are not going to commit themselves
