Starbucks strike expands to more than 300 US stores: Union
Al JazeeraStrike over wages and staffing issues comes at one of the coffee chain’s busiest times of the year. A strike at Starbucks has expanded to more than 300 of the coffee chain’s stores in the United States, with more than 5,000 workers expected to walk off the job, the workers’ union said. Starbucks Workers United, representing employees at 525 stores nationwide, said more than 60 US stores across 12 major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Seattle, were shut on Monday. Starbucks, which operates more than 10,000 company-operated stores across the US, said 98 percent of its stores remained open, and said that only around 170 stores closed on Tuesday. The union also said that Starbucks has yet to present its workers with “a serious economic proposal”.