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Okay, we've got to get into this. Starbucks, they're having a strike.

Starbucks workers at around 100 stores have begun a national three-day walkout.

The union campaign's largest action, this is from in these times, a pro-union organization.

In the latest escalation of their growing union drive, Starbucks workers across the country are staging a three-day strike beginning today,

making you the longest nationally

coordinated job action in the company's history.

Over a thousand baristas who are part of Starbucks's union at around 100 stores have decided

to stop work.

It's the Starbucks Workers Union, which won union elections

and 270 locations covering 7,000 baristas in December of 2021. It's demanding the coffee

giant begin negotiating a first contract rather than continue union busting. The National Labor Relations Board has sided the

company with over 900 alleged violations of federal labor law. So they are striking. There

had been a one-day strike November 17th called the Red Cup Rebellion. And now they're walking

out. You know know the greatest thing

that could happen for the United States of America is for the Starbucks

strike to continue indefinitely because then everyone could go find and discover

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