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Unionized Starbucks workers went on strike in three cities Friday and threatened to expand their walkouts to additional markets in the run-up to Christmas.
“In a year when Starbucks invested so many millions in top executive talent, it has failed to present the baristas who make its company run with a viable economic proposal,” Fatemeh Alhadjaboodi, a Texas worker involved in negotiations, said in a statement through the union. Members of the Starbucks Workers United union picket outside a Starbucks store in Chicago on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024.Starbucks Workers United, which is part of the union Workers United, said the first strikes hit stores in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle.The Starbucks campaign is one of the most closely watched U.S. union efforts in decades.
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