Starbucks' union workers plan strike next week unless company agrees to a contract

Source: The Hill-AP

by DEE-ANN DURBIN, Associated Press - 11/05/25 3:03 PM ET

Starbucks’ union members have voted to strike at the company’s U.S. stores next week unless it finalizes a contract agreement, the union said Wednesday.

The strike would begin on Nov. 13, which is the day Starbucks plans to distribute free, reusable red cups. Red Cup Day, a Starbucks tradition since 2018, is typically one of the company’s busiest days of the year.

Starbucks Workers United, the union organizing baristas, didn’t say how many stores would be impacted. But it said workers in at least 25 cities planned to strike and more locations could be added if the union doesn’t see “substantial progress” toward finalizing a contract.

Around 550 of Starbucks’ 10,000 company-operated U.S. stores are currently unionized. More stores have voted to unionize since 2021, but Starbucks closed 59 unionized stores in September as part of a larger restructuring.


FILE – This is a sign in front of a Starbucks in Dormont, Pa., March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

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