As they look for a contract with the coffee giant, StarbucksWorkers United said on Tuesday that 98% of union baristas have voted to authorize a strike.
In the final session of the year, bargaining representatives will resume talks with Starbucks on Tuesday in an attempt to reach an agreement on a basic framework. According to a news statement from the union, Starbucks and Workers United have negotiated for hundreds of hours this year and have proposed dozens of tentative agreements.
However, the union claimed that Starbucks has not yet put out a comprehensive package that would address barista compensation and other perks, and that hundreds of complaints involving unfair labor practices remain unresolved.
Starbucks denied the union’s description in a statement to CNBC, stating that the corporation is still dedicated to coming to a final framework deal.
It is disheartening that instead of concentrating on the very fruitful negotiations, the union is contemplating a strike. According to the company’s statement, since April, we have organized and participated in over eight multi-day bargaining sessions, during which we have secured thirty significant agreements on dozens of subjects that Workers United representatives indicated us were important to them, including numerous economic ones.
After thawing in late February when both parties claimed they had discovered a positive way ahead through mediation, the strike permission suggests that relations between the two sides may be cooling down once more. For more than two years before then, Starbucks had been fighting the union wave that swept through its company-owned outlets. Some customers and lawmakers reacted negatively to the company’s efforts to stop the union movement, which culminated in former CEO Howard Schultz testifying on Capitol Hill.
In his first weeks on the job, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol, who started in September, wrote to the union pledging to engage in good faith bargaining.
Niccolan declared on Monday that, beginning in March, the business would quadruple the amount of paid parental leave. However, due to a decline in revenue at its U.S. stores, baristas are expected to earn a lesser yearly salary increase next year than they have in prior years.
Since the initial votes that were held in Buffalo three years ago, more than 500 Starbucks locations that are owned by the firm have chosen to join Workers United.
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