The Starbucks at 1901 Dempster St. reopened early Tuesday morning over the objections of unionized staff who remain on strike.
The store, which currently is operating shorter hours, is staffed by new workers, managers from other stores and a few employees who previously worked at the location and decided to cross the picket line, according to James Maeder, a striking worker who had worked at the location as a shift supervisor.
On Tuesday, a group of unionized Starbucks employees who remain on strike were picketing outside the store, informing customers walking in and in the drive-thru lane that the store was, in their words, “being operated by scabs.”…