On Sunday, picketers in front of a Starbucks on South Broadway in Denver approached customers as they entered the store’s drive-thru, discussed the national strike against the coffee chain, and persuaded many to leave without making a purchase. ,
About a dozen people paced the sidewalk and approached cars in front of the Broadway store, carrying signs like “No Contract? No Starbucks.”
During a half-hour period starting at about 11 a.m., two cars out of about 10 that were heading into the store’s parking lot turned around and left after the drivers talked with union supporters who approached their cars with flyers.
Later, about half the cars approaching the drive-thru left without buying a latte or anything, said Clarence Mills, one of the leaders of the Labor Committee of the Denver Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)…