Thousands of Starbucks workers across the US are going on strike for a fifth consecutive day, culminating in a Christmas Eve walkout at 300 stores. This holiday season strike by Starbucks Workers United seeks to pressure the company into negotiations for a fair collective bargaining agreement.
Work stoppages on Tuesday mark the last wave of an escalating strike. In all, 5,000 Starbucks employees are on strike in more than 25 states, spanning from Maryland to Montana to California, Workers United said. Baristas are set to walk off the job on Tuesday, expanding the dayslong holiday strike to 300 stores in dozens of cities and towns nationwide, according to the union Starbucks Workers United .
Workers in Columbus, Ohio, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Buffalo, New York, and a host of other locations are set to join the strikes, the union said. The work stoppages on Christmas Eve mark the final wave of a five-day strike meant to disrupt Starbucks during one of the busiest times of the year for the coffeehouse giant. 'These strikes are an initial show of strength, and we're just getting started,' Lauren Hollingsworth, a Starbucks barista in Ashland, Oregon, told ABC News in a statement. Starbucks Workers United and Starbucks announced earlier this year that they would work on a 'foundational framework' to reach a collective bargaining agreement for stores, something the union says has not come to fruition. 'We were ready to bring the foundational framework home this year, but Starbucks wasn't,' Lynne Fox, President of Workers United, told ABC News in a statement. The strike began on Friday and has escalated each day since. On Monday, about 60 stores were forced to close as result of work stoppages, the union said. In response to ABC News' request for comment, Starbucks Spokesperson Jay Go Guasch said the strikes had impacted a fraction of its U.S. stores. 'Only around 170 Starbucks stores did not open as planned. With over 10,000 company operated stores, 98% of our stores and over 200,000 green apron partners continuing to operate and serve customers during the holidays,' Go-Guasch sai
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