With less than a week to go for Christmas, hundreds of Starbucks baristas have announced to go on strike in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle on Friday over unfair labor practices and stalled negotiations with the company, Workers United, the workers union representing 525 Starbucks outlets across the country, said in a statement.
The announcement comes close on the heels of thousands of Amazon workers staging a walkout after the Jeff Bezos-owned company refused to start contract negotiations with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters - a labor union.
