Your Local Barista Wants Better Wages
- Protests took place nationwide during Starbucks’s Red Cup Day
- About 250 Starbucks locations have voted to unionize
Striking Starbucks workers chant outside of a Starbucks in San Francisco, on Thursday.
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Starbucks Corp. baristas, on strike Thursday at about 100 locations across the nation demanding better pay and treatment, were attempting to grab the company’s attention by disrupting business.
Seattle-based Starbucks has been attempting to blunt a unionization effort that’s taken hold across the US. The chain has raised wages, and introduced new equipment and training to appease its employees. So far about 250 of Starbucks’s 9,000 US company-run locations have voted to unionize.