Workers striking at first unionized Starbucks in Seattle
On Friday, the first unionized Starbucks workers in Seattle from the Broadway and Denny store on Capitol Hill are striking to protest the treatment of their co-workers at three locations.
“With less than a week’s notice, the workers at First and University, First and Pike, and the first store at Pike Place Market, were expected to make time to interview for their own jobs, a task that is both insulting and impractical. More than 20 workers so far have been informed that they did not qualify for the jobs they have been doing, in some cases, for years,” a news release from Seattle Starbucks Workers United said.
The release said only one worker from the First and Pike store, which has filed a petition to unionize, was offered their original job, leaving the other employees with the choice of transferring to another store or quitting.
Workers will picket outside of their store at 101 Broadway East, starting at 7 a.m.
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