It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. So for the last three weeks,

in case you haven't heard this yet, workers at various Starbucks locations across the country

have been on strike. This comes as the coffee giant just agreed to pay out a settlement of

$38 million to workers and the New York City government after the local labor and consumer

agency found systemic violations of the law at locations across the city.

More on the details of the settlement and the current strike to come, but on Monday, striking Starbucks workers in Park Slope

found themselves on the picket line with two of the nation's most prominent political figures, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and mayor-elect

Zeran Mamdani. Solidarity is the word the incoming mayor focused on in his remarks to workers.

Here's 30 seconds of it. Solidarity, as much as we speak of it, we have to remember, is not an abstract

concept. It is measured in

picket lines, stood on in the rain and in the sleet. It is measured in rent payments that workers

do not know if they will be able to meet. Child care bills, they do not know whether they will

be able to afford. And it is measured in strangers who have never met one another, linking arms to

fight for a shared goal and a fairer future.

With me now to talk about the Starbucks strike settlement and what it might mean for the city

and even the larger labor movement when the incoming mayor throws his weight behind a strike is Claudia Irizari

Aponte senior reporter covering labor and work for the news organization the city. Hey, Claudia,

welcome back to WNYC. Thanks for having me. And we'll talk about Mamdani in a minute, but let's start

with this settlement that Starbucks agreed to with the

city's labor and consumer agency. This is practically brand new news yesterday. What law

did the company violate if there was an admission of a violation? And was it the settlement

for a repeated offense?

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