New York’s Staten Island.According to the union, Starbucks members United, Starbucks baristas in Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Portland, Oregon, hung up their aprons Monday in solidarity with union members in a Strike Before Christmas. The walkout was extended to 12 cities across the country, including New York City.
Following Starbucks’ reversal of the course agreed upon with workers and their union over the future of collective bargaining and organizing, baristas began five days of intensifying unfair labor practices (ULP) strikes on Friday, according to a union announcement on Monday.
According to the union, the ULP strikes are currently occurring in twelve major cities, including Chicago, Columbus, Ohio; Denver; Los Angeles; New York City; Pittsburgh; Philadelphia; Seattle; and St. Louis, Missouri.
In addition to Long Island and Northern New Jersey, Starbucks baristas are presently on strike in Manhattan and Brooklyn. According to insiders, information regarding Staten Island locations will be released shortly.
It is anticipated that walkouts will continue to rise through Christmas Eve. According to the published notice, union leaders stated that Starbucks’ biggest consumer traffic periods of the year are often the final days before Christmas.
According to Fatemeh Alhadjaboodi, a negotiation delegate and five-year Starbucks barista from Texas, “nobody wants to strike; it’s a last resort, but Starbucks has broken its promise to thousands of baristas and left us with no choice.” Starbucks has failed to provide the baristas who run the business with a workable economic proposition and address the ongoing unfair labor practices, while spending millions on top executive talent in the past year. This is only the start. We will do every effort to ensure that the business fulfills the promise it made to us in February.
On Sunday, Starbucks partners closed about 50 locations in a number of metropolitan cities.
Employees at well-known consumer brands like Amazon, Starbucks, and others are still battling for contracts.
Just a few days before the end of the holiday season, hundreds of Amazon employees braved the bitter weather to picket as part of a walkout from the Amazon fulfillment center in Bloomfield on Sunday afternoon.
Starbucks committed to a labor agreement in February, but has not fulfilled its end of the bargain, according to Starbucks Workers United, the union that has organized employees at 535 company-owned U.S. locations since 2021.
Additionally, the union wants Starbucks to settle unresolved legal matters, such as hundreds of unfair labor practice complaints that employees have submitted to the National Labor Relations Board.
Starbucks, which has its headquarters in Seattle, said NBC News that its shop operations had not been significantly impacted.
According to a statement from corporate spokesperson Phil Gee, “We are aware of disruption at a small handful of stores, but the overwhelming majority of our U.S. stores remain open and serving customers as normal.”
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