On a day that the Starbucks head honchos intend to spread holiday cheer, more than 2,000 Starbucks workers went on strike.
Members of the Starbucks Workers Union, including at Williamsburg’s own Starbucks Reserve location, protested outside their respective stores to bring attention to what they feel is the company dragging its feet on entering into good-faith bargaining negotiations.
Starbucks Workers Union says that today’s strike is “the largest coordinated action of the Starbucks Union movement…
As American as apple pie. This is repeating the union movement in the 1930s when like today big business treated workers like slaves. Then unions lost their way with corruption and over reach and fell out of favor and the pendulum swung back to big business.
Now the pendulum has reversed itself to the 1930s.