The union representing thousands of Starbucks workers in the US is staging a walkout on one of the coffee chain’s busiest days of the year.
Ms Eisen said she expected more customers and community activists to join the action this year in a warning sign for the coffee brand.
It said it had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on higher wages, training and new equipment and it blamed the union for delays in talks, noting successful negotiations at several stores in Canada.
“Starbucks remains ready to progress in-person negotiations with the unions certified to represent partners,” the company said in a statement.
Union members say it has dragged its feet at the negotiating table and gone so far as to fire workers and shut stores in an effort to stop the movement.
Ms Eisen, who was involved with the first Starbucks store to unionise, said watching other unions win big wage increases at other companies, such as UPS, had been “bittersweet”.
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The union representing thousands of Starbucks workers in the US is staging a walkout on one of the coffee chain’s busiest days of the year.
Ms Eisen said she expected more customers and community activists to join the action this year in a warning sign for the coffee brand.
It said it had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on higher wages, training and new equipment and it blamed the union for delays in talks, noting successful negotiations at several stores in Canada.
“Starbucks remains ready to progress in-person negotiations with the unions certified to represent partners,” the company said in a statement.
Union members say it has dragged its feet at the negotiating table and gone so far as to fire workers and shut stores in an effort to stop the movement.
Ms Eisen, who was involved with the first Starbucks store to unionise, said watching other unions win big wage increases at other companies, such as UPS, had been “bittersweet”.
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