street. Anthony, Minnesota. —Twin Cities Starbucks Barista Join the national strike Tuesday afternoon.
Baristas picketing outside the store on Silverlake Road in St. Anthony are demanding a wage increase.
“We’re trying to get a fair wage in a society where the cost of living is so high, and when you have companies like Starbucks that are doing billions of dollars in revenue and profits, and you have things where you have a sign-on bonus,” said Anton Olsson, a shift supervisor at Starbucks in St. Anthony. For a new CEO, who was the CEO of Chipotle, their signing bonus is over $100 million, and we don’t see any of that.” “It feels unfair.”
Workers at seven other sites in Minnesota are expected to go on strike Tuesday.
says United Workers, the union that represents workers at 525 Starbucks stores across the country More than 5,000 workers at more than 300 stores are expected to leave their jobs on Tuesday. However, Starbucks says about 170 locations did not open as planned on Christmas Eve.
The union says the strike is unfair It started Fridaywith strikes in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle.
Starbucks said in a statement that the United Workers “chose to walk away from bargaining last week.”
The Seattle-based company says the union is calling for an immediate 64% minimum wage increase and a 77% increase over three years.
“This is not sustainable,” Starbucks said.
