Workers at unionized Starbucks locations across the Portland area remain on strike this week and say they will not return to work until Starbucks resolves complaints about its labor practices and returns to the bargaining table.
Roughly 2,000 workers at 95 unionized Starbucks locations across the country have been on strike since mid-November. Seven of those stores are in the Portland area, with workers at two stores in Eugene on strike as well.
The strike was timed to coincide with “Red Cup Day,” which is typically among Starbucks’ busiest and most lucrative events of the year. But Maggie Bolden, a shift supervisor at the Starbucks location at SE 126th and Division, said striking baristas are prepared to stay out on their picket lines for the foreseeable future…