Starbucks will pay about $35 million to 15,000-plus New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced.
Starbucks will pay about $35 million to 15,000-plus New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday, hours before Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders visited striking baristas on a picket line. The development came amid a continuing strike by Starbucks’ union that began last month at dozens of locations around the country, reports the AP. The workers want better hours and increased staffing, and they’re angry that Starbucks hasn’t agreed on a contract nearly four years after workers voted to unionize at a store in Buffalo, New York.
Mamdani, Sanders, and some state and city officials sought to amplify the baristas’ message by mingling with scores of strikers and supporters outside a Starbucks shop in Brooklyn.
