Striking workers have had to endure a bed bug infestation in their break rooms and mold in their ice machines.
Workers at the New York City Starbucks Reserve Roastery in the Meatpacking District have been on strike since the beginning of last week against unsafe work conditions and the multi-billion dollar corporation’s refusal to bargain in good faith with the union for a first contract.
Workers United, the union representative of the workers, filed an OSHA complaint against the facility as well as a national Unfair Labor Practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board over the ”failure to bargain” and listed the Roastery and 151 other locations where Starbucks has refused to begin bargaining.
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