The red cup rebellion began on Thursday Nov. 13. This included stores in Ypsilanti: Glencoe Crossing and Carpenter Road locations. Starbucks employees are outraged with the management of their stores and how they are being treated. The Starbucks workers are striking in hopes to finalize a fair contract with all employees and address their ongoing ULP’S (unfair labor practices). A ULP is an unfair labor practice.
Two stores in Ypsilanti are still closed as of Dec. 17 due to the picket line. Elizabeth is part of the Starbucks union members who are picketing.
“The company has been refusing to give us fair wages and fair hours,” she said. “They’ve been refusing to come to the bargaining table after many, many requests of us trying to get them to bargain and sit down with us, but they’ve been refusing since, I think May at this point, recently, the union and a lot of stores have voted to go on strike against the company until they give us a fair labor contract. This strike will not end until they sit down with us.”
According to https://sbworkersunited.org/our-strike/, Starbucks leadership said they will return “to talk” to the bargaining team. According to Elizabeth, the CEO of Starbucks made $96 million in four months. This means he makes around, 6666 times the amount of the average Starbucks employee…