SBWU strikes are spreading like wildfire (Starbucks)

[Omaha Steve]

Links are here: https://mailchi.mp/c598f2a2891e/is-starbucks-chocolate-a-dirty-trick-or-a-clean-treat-14203373

We’re on day 4 of our 5 days of ULP strikes, and the SBWU strike lines keep spreading! Baristas are fired up and ready to fight for a fair contract and protest hundreds of unfair labor practices – and as each day passes, more and more workers are walking off the job.


Today, we’re out in 3 new cities: Boston, Portland, and Dallas! Here are the 13 cities we’re holding anchor pickets in:

LA: 10am PST @ 3241 N Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA

Seattle: 1pm PST @ 1124 Pike St, Seattle WA

Chicago: 12pm CST @ 5964 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL

Denver: 12pm MST @ 2700 S Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO

Columbus: 12pm EST @ 7176 N High St, Worthington, OH

Pittsburgh: 8am EST @ 5932 Penn Cir S. Pittsburgh, PA

St. Louis: 12pm CST @ 8023 Dale Ave, Richmond Heights MO

Philadelphia: 9am EST @ 1528 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA

Brooklyn: 9am EST @ 325 Lafayette, Brooklyn, NY

Long Island: 1pm EST @ 914 Old Country Rd, Garden City, NY

Dallas: 11am CST @ 1445 West University Drive, Denton TX

Portland: 10am PST @ 9350 SW Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy, Beaverton OR

Boston: 10am EST @ 470 Washington St, Brighton MA


If you’re able to join your local picket line, workers would love supplies like: hand-warmers, food, water, hot beverages, and energetic vibes! Don’t forget to bring your own picket sign!


Don’t live near a picket line? We still need you! Striking baristas are calling on allies to flyer as many not-yet union Starbucks as possible. Workers across the country are infuriated over the paltry 2% raise, and SBWU gives not-yet union baristas a path to increase their wages. But in order to win, we need not-yet union stores to get in the fight. We’re asking allies to flyer these stores and talk to baristas about the union.


Show us your solidarity: register your canvassing event, attend an anchor strike line near you, and DO NOT cross the picket line!


Onward,

Lilly

[4th]

1. A bit of local coverage in a Chicago suburb.

Workers Strike At Des Plaines Starbucks Location
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/workers-strike-at-des-plaines-starbucks-location/

Workers at the Starbucks store on Lee Street in Des Plaines joined unionized baristas in other major U.S. markets Friday in a strike over what they call are unfair labor practices.

The store at 1427 Lee St. was closed early Friday morning (Dec. 20) with a group of four employees and a strike organizer holding signs in front. “No coffee ’til Christmas,” they told drivers passing by, some honking their horns in support.

Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) said the escalating strikes would occur in three of the company’s “most important markets” — Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago — through Christmas Eve next week, “unless Starbucks honors our commitment to work towards a foundational framework,” the union said on X.

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It's a suburb in the political sense of Cook County outside the city of Chicago proper.
But it's urban population density with public transit, not sprawl.

Any other smaller venues on strike?
Please post coverage here.