{"id":1742808,"date":"2022-11-17T15:33:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T20:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1742808"},"modified":"2022-11-17T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T20:33:27","slug":"bah-humbug-newly-unionized-starbucks-employees-declare-war-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bah-humbug-newly-unionized-starbucks-employees-declare-war-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bah, Humbug! Newly Unionized Starbucks Employees Declare War on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbah-humbug-newly-unionized-starbucks-employees-declare-war-on-christmas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1742808&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The newly unionized staff at a Virginia Starbucks shut down the coffee giant&#8217;s annual Christmas promotional event in protest of the company&#8217;s refusal to meet their demands in the nine days since they formed a bargaining unit.<\/p>\n<p>Baristas at the Starbucks in Arlington&#8217;s Courthouse Plaza timed their Thursday strike to coincide with &#8220;Red Cup Day,&#8221; where each customer gets a free, reusable red cup with the purchase of any holiday beverage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arlnow.com\/2022\/11\/17\/newly-unionized-starbucks-baristas-are-on-strike-in-courthouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to <em>ARLnow<\/em>. The baristas, who only voted to unionize on Nov. 8, are unhappy at the speed with which the company is responding to their demands.<\/p>\n<p>Union member Samuel Dukore told <em>ARLnow<\/em> that &#8220;Starbucks has been dragging its feet coming to the negotiation table.&#8221; But Dukore, who has been a union member for about 2 percent of the year, also claims the company &#8220;is not negotiating in good faith,&#8221; a seeming contradiction with his initial complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Over 100 Starbucks branches nationwide are <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SBWorkersUnited\/status\/1593182315953491970?s=20&#038;t=nNF0CTPBb8I5yltqkHQGbQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">participating<\/a> in the &#8220;Red Cup Rebellion,&#8221; an effort by Starbucks Workers United to exact concessions from the corporation on one of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/11\/17\/1137296597\/starbucks-strike-red-cup-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">busiest<\/a> days. Striking members are carrying signs with a modified Starbucks logo showing the Grinch&#8217;s hand holding a Christmas ornament and the phrase &#8220;NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE.&#8221; The striking baristas are proudly embracing the Grinch label as they attempt to rob festive Americans of caffeinated delights and Christmas cheer.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not all the strikers seem to have stolen. A Washington Free Beacon textual analysis confirmed that the protesters&#8217; signs use the same typeface as Starbucks competitor Dunkin&#8217; Donuts, where employees are not attempting to steal Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/?attachment_id=1659213\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1659213\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Predictably, the chai-latte-sipping Scrooges have found support among progressive lawmakers. Senator-elect John Fetterman (D., Pa.) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnFetterman\/status\/1593274058585538562?s=20&#038;t=nCNEYHkotjJtCJ0CwL4v0g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voiced<\/a> his support for the #RedCupRebellion on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/1593214815152898054?s=20&#038;t=nCNEYHkotjJtCJ0CwL4v0g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as did<\/a> avowed democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.).<\/p>\n<p>Sanders isn&#8217;t the only socialist boosting the protests. The protesters in Arlington were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dsa_nova\/status\/1593206788043997186?s=20&#038;t=iD7PmBYCmKzGWgikXVfEwQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joined<\/a> by members of the Northern Virginia branch of the Democratic Socialists of America, but even with\u00a0assistance from the Internationale, the striking baristas&#8217; effort to block customers from obtaining coffee and commemorative red cups was a bust. According to <em>ARLnow<\/em>, the Courthouse Starbucks is &#8220;well-staffed with un-unionized employees and managers, and a greeter at the door welcoming customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One employee of the Free Beacon, which is located just blocks from the protest, was able to obtain a Chestnut Praline Latte, one of the chain&#8217;s signature holiday beverages. The employee, who requested anonymity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly unionized staff at a Virginia Starbucks shut down the coffee giant&#8217;s annual Christmas promotional event in protest of the company&#8217;s refusal to meet their demands in the nine days since they formed a bargaining unit.<br \/>\nThe post Bah, Humbug! 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