A Strike Is Brewing At Starbucks, But Will It Matter?

After five years without a contract, baristas at 550 Starbucks stores in 25 American cities have voted to strike on Thursday unless a final employment contract is reached.

Twenty-seven workers at a Starbucks coffee shop in Buffalo, NY, voted to unionize in 2021, sparking a wave of successful unionization drives at more than 550 Starbucks stores around the country.

But five years have passed and Starbucks Workers United, which represents approximately 9,500 Starbucks employees, has not managed to obtain a final union contra…