Labor Union Urges Starbucks Walkout on Thursday

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Starbucks customers could be seeing red this Thursday, the coffee giant's thousands of unionized workers are being urged to walk out during Red Cup Day. The yearly promotional event in which every coffee purchase comes with a holiday themed reusable cup is a key retail day for Starbucks. But the Labor Union Workers United which represents more than 9000 Starbucks employees and more than 360 stores said Red Cup Day is quote, one of the most infamously hard understaffed days for the baristas and is urging the walkout to call attention to these labor conditions. In a statement, Starbucks said this quote, Workers United hasn't agreed to meet to progress contract bargaining in more than four months. End quote.