Work stoppages to come on same day as yearly promotion and impact hundreds of locations, the coffee chain's union says.

Thousands of unionized Starbucks workers will walk off their jobs on Thursday, with the one-day work stoppages coming to protest the company’s stance with shops that voted to organize, according to Starbucks Workers United.

The labor action is timed to for Starbucks’ Red Cup Day, an annual event in which the coffee giant hands out holiday-themed reusable cups. Starbucks has refused to negotiate in good faith over staffing and other issues that are particularly acute during promotions, according to the union.

“Starbucks is creating unnecessarily stressful working conditions by scheduling promotion after promotion without increasing staffing,” Neha Cremin, a Starbucks worker in Oklahoma City, said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch. “Starbucks has made it clear that they won’t listen to workers, so we’re advocating for ourselves by going on strike.”

  • @[email protected]
    126•8 months ago

    it was so cruel working a food service job where every so often they’d do cutesy little promo days or sales days (over dumb completely made up little folk holidays or ad campaign traditions like this); they cook up this sort of faux-positive team-spirit attitude about ‘getting thru it’ or whatever, like a band of soldiers. and at the end of the day, you’re worn out, stressed, you got paid the same shitty wage you got paid yesterday, the company doubled their profits, which all go off to some dickhead in ohio who didn’t do shit, but looked forward to today like christmas

    and i love how after 2020 now it’s just par for the course for restaurants to always be understaffed because it’s cheaper. this stupid fucking country is falling apart.

    • Flying Squid
      61•8 months ago

      Businesses used to give their workers Christmas bonuses for doing things like that.

    • NielsBohronEnglish
      23•8 months ago

      and i love how after 2020 now it’s just par for the course for restaurants to always be understaffed because it’s cheaper.

      But don’t forget the managers and business owners complaining “people don’t want to work” and blaming Democrats, unions, unemployment benefits, and “kids these days”