Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores, including multiple in Chicago and Illinois, say they’re going on strike Thursday in what would be the largest labor action since a campaign to unionize the company’s stores began late last year.
, including multiple in Chicago and Illinois, say they're going on strike Thursday in what would be the largest labor action since a campaign to unionize the company’s stores began late last year.
The walkouts are scheduled to coincide with Starbucks’ annual Red Cup Day, when the company gives free reusable cups to customers who order a holiday drink. Instead, workers say they'll be handed out"Starbucks Workers United" branded cups outside stores where strikes are taking place. Workers say it’s often one of the busiest days of the year. Starbucks declined to say how many red cups it plans to distribute.
Workers at stores located at Armitage and Hoyne, and Ridge and Clark, are planning to join the nationwide strike, according to a release. A so-called"Red Cup Rebellion Parade" is expected to begin at 10 a.m. “We unionize and they retaliate, they fire us, close our stores, deny us promised benefits and wage increases," said Chicago organizer Reed Essex."We come to the table and they leave that table. They have money to pay lawyers an exorbitant cost, for hotel rooms, for round trip flights, but no money for our labor, no money to spend on us. Yet still they pretend to be the smiling, genial multi-billion dollar company with a workforce of over 300,000 people and no problems whatsoever.
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