The Starbucks union says its strike has expanded to over 30 locations throughout the country, with the latest work stoppage hitting a store in Albany, NY, days after after New York City’s socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani called for a boycott of the chain.
The Starbucks union says its strike has expanded to over 30 locations throughout the country, with the latest work stoppage hitting a store in Albany, NY, days after after New York City’s socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani called for a boycott of the chain.
Baristas at the Starbucks on New Scotland Avenue in New York’s state capital went on strike Thursday, the same day top officials with the incoming Mamdani administration joined a picket line outside a Starbucks in Manhattan’s Financial District.
Continuing his anti-capitalist message, Mamdani tweeted: “making NYC affordable means an end to unfair labor practices and a living wage for our workers.
“We are their partners in the fight to live in this city with dignity,” said the pol, who takes office just after midnight on Jan. 1.
Mamdani’s transition co-chair, lefty darling Lina Khan, and his pick for first deputy mayor, Dean Fuleihan, gave moral support to the striking baristas, according to the mayor-elect’s tweet.
