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Starbucks Workers United escalates strike during busy holiday season
CNBC ^ | November 20, 2025 | By Kate Rogers

Posted on 11/20/2025 6:23:14 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

KEY POINTS

* Starbucks Workers United says it is adding more than two dozen new cities and stores to its strike count, brining the total to 95 stores in 65 cities.

* The union, which began organizing in 2021, has threatened the “largest, longest” strike in company history. It began on Nov. 13 and is open-ended.

* Starbucks and the union entered into mediation in February, and hundreds of barista delegates voted down the economic package Starbucks proposed in April.

* Both sides have pointed blame at the other for failure to reach a bargaining agreement, and say they’re ready to negotiate.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: starbucks

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We don’t need any six dollar a cup coffee.


21 posted on 11/20/2025 8:13:40 AM PST by silent majority rising ( United Israel - Judea, Samaria, and Gaza - US get out of the UN-we are not United with them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just shut down any store which has strikers out front. Keep it down for a week. Then, re-open.

Rinse, repeat.


22 posted on 11/20/2025 9:30:48 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh Noes! What will people do not being able to buy their overpriced burned coffee at Star*ucks? Logic says they will get their caffeine fix elsewhere and like it, and never return to Star*ucks. I think that it’s awesome that Star*ucks baristas and their union are the ones teaching people they don’t need overpriced crappy coffee and cutting Star*ucks business so that jobs and locations eliminated.


23 posted on 11/20/2025 9:40:02 AM PST by Mastador1
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To: Mastador1

The workers should offer to buy the location. See how many wealthy parents would invest for their kid to be an owner of a Starbucks.


24 posted on 11/20/2025 10:48:23 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Quiet! Quiet Piggy!)
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To: V_TWIN
I’ve never understood how unskilled labor can successfully unionize but I guess they can.

Most federal employees are unskilled, but they unionized.

25 posted on 11/20/2025 10:52:16 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“What exactly is Starbucking?”
From the ‘78 Battlestar Galactica


26 posted on 11/20/2025 11:13:13 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What are the suburban white women going to do?


27 posted on 11/20/2025 12:32:50 PM PST by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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