Starbucks workers went on a one-day strike, forming a picket line outside 874 Commonwealth Ave. on Monday to protest their employer’s unfair labor practices and to celebrate International Workers’ Day.
Workers at over 100 Starbucks locations across the United States went on strike yesterday to call on Starbucks to engage in union contract negotiations — including the location at 847 Commonwealth Avenue that was on strike for 64 days this past summer.
On their 60th day of strike, 874 Commonwealth Ave. Starbucks Workers United faced corporate Starbucks attorneys' orders to stay off property or risk trespassing.
Starbucks workers at the Commonwealth Ave. location have been protesting corporate for a month. Workers want a better work environment and have already unionized. The location remains closed.
