Big titleDecember 19, 2022
In the United States, more than 1,000 workers at the Starbucks coffee chain from 100 different stores staged a three-day strike from Friday to Sunday to protest the giant coffee chain’s union-busting efforts. This is the largest coordinated work stoppage of Starbucks employees. In just one year, 270 stores voted to unionize. However, the company waged a growing anti-union campaign and refused to bargain in good faith with its workers. Those are the words of a former Starbucks store employee in the town of Anderson, South Carolina, who was fired along with five other employees in retaliation for their union organizing efforts.
Aneil Tripathi“Starbucks is stepping up its union busting tactics, so we are stepping up our strikes. Starbucks continues to suspend benefits [de los trabajadores] from their unionized stores, like credit card tips; however, he gives them [a los trabajadores de] non-union stores. Starbucks is also reducing our hours and targeting unionized employees by reducing their hours and suspending benefits so they cannot receive Starbucks benefits. We are here in solidarity with our comrades in the fight against the company. Starbucks is making billions of dollars, while employees can’t survive and struggle to pay their bills. So we’re here dealing with a billion-dollar corporation.”
Union workers are asking customers to refrain from buying Starbucks gift cards this holiday season as a show of support for their campaign.
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