Starbucks Worker Strike

*** MEDIA ADVISORY ***

*** THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17 ***

*** NATIONAL RED CUP REBELLION STRIKE ***

Salt Lake City, UT - On Thursday, November 17, workers at the 4th and 4th Starbucks location in Salt Lake will be striking in solidarity with their fellow workers across the country. They join the over 100 stores participating in Red Cup Rebellion, a nationwide unfair labor practice (ULP) strike demanding Starbucks fully staff all union stores and begin bargaining in good faith.

Red Cup Rebellion takes place the same day as the corporation's Red Cup Day, a day on which thousands of Starbucks locations across the country will offer customers a branded Starbucks cup with select purchases. Striking workers will be demonstrating outside of their stores and handing out Starbucks Workers United branded cups to customers instead.

Starbucks partners are the face and foundation of the Company, yet they are forced to run perpetually understaffed stores while working inconsistent schedules they cannot rely on Conditions lie these are what led Starbucks partners nationwide to begin unionizing, and the Company has only responded with disdain and disregard for its employees.

Now, Starbucks partners are demanding the Company meet them at the bargaining table to create improved standards in staffing and scheduling, along with a host of other bargaining proposals that have been crafted by partner leaders across the country.

Workers ask that community supporters join them on the strike line today, and to not cross the picket.

Starbucks Workers United represent over 260 locations accounting for nearly 7,000 workers in the country. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued 39 official complaints against Starbucks, encompassing over 900 alleged violations of federal labor law.