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(Updated at 10:25 a.m.) The employees at the Courthouse Starbucks have gone on strike, days after unionizing. The reason for the strike, per Starbucks employee and union member Samuel Dukore, is that the company is not negotiating "in good faith" when it comes to a contract. "Starbucks has been dragging its feet coming
The newly unionized staff at a Virginia Starbucks shut down the coffee giant's annual Christmas promotional event in protest of the company's refusal to meet their demands in the nine days since they formed a bargaining unit.
Yesterday was an election day as well for employees at the Starbucks in Courthouse Plaza, who voted to become the second D.C.-area location of the coffee giant to unionize. Workers at a local Starbucks won their election to form a union, as first reported by Washington Post reporter Lauren Kaori Gurley. The employees