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November 17, 2023

Thousands of Starbucks Workers Walk Off the Job on "Red Cup Day"
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Thousands of Starbucks workers held a one-day strike Thursday on "Red
Cup Day," one of Starbucks's busiest days of the year. Workers say
frequent promotional events and giveaways like yesterday's create extra
stress and unmanageable workloads. Organizers say Thursday's walkout was
the largest in the coffee chain's history. A historic union drive has
swept over Starbucks stores nationwide in the past two years; over 360
locations are now unionized. This is Edwin Palma Solis, a Starbucks
worker in New York.

Edwin Palma Solis: "We want to make sure that we have better pay,
staffing, scheduling, and we have the right amount of hours to work,
because they've been improperly staffing us. And sometimes it just makes
it harder for us to work. You know, sometimes we feel like we work for
two people instead of one, and we're just tired. We're just really tired
of overworking ourselves."



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