Daily News | Starbucks workers are on national 3-day strike
More than 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers at roughly 100 stores across the country — including three stores in Philadelphia — went on strike today, with plans to continue picketing through the weekend.
In Philadelphia, workers from Starbucks locations at 3400 Civic Center Blvd., 34th and Walnut, and 20th and Market are participating in the strike, which organizers have dubbed the “Double Down Strike.”, when more than 110 union stores and 1,000 workers went on strike on Starbucks’ Red Cup Day, when the company gives out free plastic cups for holiday-drink orders.
The first Starbucks store voted to unionize last December in Buffalo. Since then, workers have voted to unionize at more than 250 stores in the U.S.,
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