Unionized Starbucks workers are staging a days-long protest during the company’s peak holiday season over a failure to come to a contract agreement.
SEATTLE — Starbucks employees in three major cities, Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago, will begin a series of escalating strikes that are expected to roll into the Christmas holiday over the coffee giant’s failure to reach a contract agreement and resolve outstanding disputes with unionized stores.
Representatives from Workers United, which represents employees at hundreds of Starbucks locations, said the company has failed to bring “viable economic proposals” in negotiations with union organizers, despite the company committing to reaching a contract agreement with
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