The five days of striking from the Starbucks workers union has grown to include locations in at least 11 states.
As of Sunday, the strike had the effect of closing “about forty national stores” after it began, according to a statement provided by the union.
The strike began with bartenders walking off the job in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle on Friday. Expanded in Denver; Columbus, Ohio; and Philadelphia.
Other places are: New York; Boston; Texas’ Dallas-Forth Worth area; and Portland, Oregon, according to the union’s filing.
“Walkouts are expected to continue surging through Christmas Eve.” Starbucks It is called United Workers. “The last day before Christmas is traditionally one of Starbucks’ busiest business times of the year.”
The union told CNN that the strike could reach “hundreds” on Tuesday.
In a statement to the Guardian, Starbucks spokesman Phil Gee said: “We’ve experienced a few disruptions this week that have had no impact on store operations.”
“Only a handful of our U.S. stores were impacted,” Ges said. “We respect our partners’ right to take legal action, and we recognize the thousands of partners across the country who support each other and deliver the Starbucks experience for our customers.”
Starbucks employs more than 200,000 employees in more than 10,000 stores, according to CNN. The Starbucks labor union represents more than 10,500 workers at more than 500 stores, according to their website.
In a statement on 10, the union wrote Thursday: “Starbucks baristas are being held for five days of development. [unfair labor practice] He was shocked by the company’s response to the promised return to enter the road. “
The union wrote that it had hoped to reach a collective bargaining agreement before the new year – but said Starbucks management had “recruited workers with a serious economic objective.”
The union added: “Starbucks has proposed no immediate wage increase for union baristas and is only guaranteeing 1.5% wage increases in future years,” the union added.
Lynn Fox, president of the United Starbucks employees, said in a letter: “We were ready to bring home the foundation this year, but Starbucks was not.”
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“After all Starbucks has said about how they value partners throughout the system, we don’t want to accept any immediate investment in barista wages, nor the payment of hundreds of thousands of unfair labor practices,” Fox said. “Union baristas know their value, and they’re not going to accept a proposal that doesn’t treat them as true partners.”
In a letter to the Guardian, Gee said: “The British Workers’ Delegates prematurely ended our bargaining session this week. It is disappointing that they have not returned to the table the progress we have reached to date.”
But a Starbucks spokesman said proposals received from the union and management “call for an immediate increase in the minimum hourly wage by 64% and by 77% over the life of the three-year contract.”
“This is not sustainable,” Gee said.
However, Ges also said: “We are ready to continue negotiations. We don’t need communion to return to the table.”
Starbucks Workers United issued a statement on behalf of Fatmeh Alhadjaboodi, a contract delegate and five-year baristas, who said: “Nobody wants to be hit. It’s a last resort, but Starbucks has broken its promise to thousands of baristas and left us with no choice.
“In a year when Starbucks invested so many millions in top executive talent, it failed to present the baristas who were running their company with a viable financial plan and dismantled pending unfair labor practices.”