Starbucks Strikes: As Christmas nears, baristas at nearly 60 Starbucks locations across the U.S. have brewed up something different: a strike. The strike began on December 20 in three cities including Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle but has expanded to other regions and could stretch to Christmas eve.
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Starbucks Strikes in US is Expanding
Starbucks Strikes in US: The workers forming a union through Starbucks Workers United state that the current negotiations with the company have been more acrimonious than sweet.
They claim the company has not upheld its promise for a labor agreement for the union this year. They also argue that the company has not adequately addressed more than 300 complaints lodged by employees with the National Labor Relations Board.
“We would like to go back to the bargaining table’ said struck Starbucks employee, Kai Krawczeniuk ‘They will give us livable wages so that we can pay rent, so we can buy groceries and so we can live”. “Because right now, we’re struggling We are getting by paycheck to paycheck but now we’re working towards being comfortable.
Far from okay requires this company to continue posting billions and billions of dollars in annual revenues while their workers struggle to pay rent.
Starbucks claims that it has agreed to provide at least a 1.5% raise in the wages of the employees covered by the union every year. The company states the worker an average wage of $18 per hour but they claim can get a package valued $30 per hour when benefits included.
In a statement, Starbucks stated the strike “had little to no effect” on its business at hundreds of its company-operated stores in America.
Of those, a little over 500 have baristas who chose to unionise. However, the union did encourage people supporting the strikes not to purchase anything from any Starbucks store during the strike.
Starbucks Strike Red Cup Day
Red cup day Starbucks Strike: The walkout started in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle on Friday but has since extended to stores across the United States including the Boston, Dallas, Portland, New York City, Denver, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and St. Louis.
”We recognize partners’ right to lawful strike and are grateful to the thousands of partners around the country who are standing by their fellow partners and providing the Starbucks experience to our customers,” Starbucks said in a statement.
Lack of any decision made in contract talks between employees and the company has seen workers stage demonstrations.
Workers United later claimed that the firm has broken its promise of achieving a labour deal this year that was made ten months ago. Currently negotiations between Starbucks and the union are frozen with the following concerns yet to be addressed: wages, staffing, and schedules.
Workers United demands for changes include the provision of an hourly pay raise of 64% for all workers in the organization and an overall increment of 77% within a contract period of three years based on the present rates for the new partners. That is not sustainable,” the company said.
Starbucks explained that the interruption from the strike is negligible on business because only Few outlets across the country are involved.
Starbucks Strike: Non-unionized Starbucks workers have voted to permit a strike
Starbucks Strikes: The union said on Friday that the strike could extend to ‘hundreds of stores’ by Christmas Eve. Starbucks has established its stores over 11,000 and the workers count ranges around 200000 in the United States.
The union and the company have been in negotiations since April this year. Starbucks stated that in response to the criticism it has pledged to offer 1.5% or higher hourly wage raise to its workers if they are unionised, Even if it offered lower raise to non-union workers for the current fiscal year.
Starbucks claimed that although average payments US baristas $18 per hour, the pay package for those earning their keep at the coffee maker through at least 20 hours a week, a generous benefits structure that includes health care, tuition fees, and paid parental leave puts baristas’ pay at $30 an hour on average.
However, workers are unhappy with the decision warning that Starbucks’ new chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who began his mandate in September, could earn over $100 million in the initial year in the new job.
It also wants the company to address pending legal matters such as the hundreds of unfair labor practice charges filed by workers at the National Labour Relations Board.
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