Over 1,000 Baristas Starbucks gets strike to protest against the new dress code

More than 1,000 Baristas Starbucks in 75 American stores have been on strike since Sunday to protest against New corporate dress codeA union representing the café giant workers said on Wednesday.

Starbucks Put new limits from Monday on what his baristas can wear under their green aprons. The dress code requires employees in operated stores and under license in the United States and Canada to wear a solid black shirt and a black or blue jeans.

Under the previous dress code, baristas could wear a wider range of dark colors and patterned shirts. Starbucks said the new rules would bring out its green aprons and create a feeling of familiarity for customers While he tries to establish a Warm and more welcoming feeling in its stores.

But Starbucks Workers UnitedThe union representing workers of 570 of the 10,000 American stores belonging to Starbucks, said that the dress code should be subject to collective negotiations.

“Starbucks has lost its way. Instead of listening to baristas that make Starbucks the experience of what it is, they focus on all bad things, such as the implementation of a new restrictive dress code,” said Paige Summers, a Shift Starbucks supervisor from Hanover, Maryland. “Customers do not care about the color of our clothes when they wait 30 minutes for a latte.”

Summers and others have also criticized the company to sell Starbucks brand clothing styles that employees are no longer allowed to wear to work on an internal website. Starbucks said he would give two free black t-shirts to each employee when he announces the new dress code.

Starbucks said on Wednesday that the strike had a limited impact on its 10,000 companies American stores.

“Thousands of Starbucks partners have come to work this week ready to serve their customers and their communities,” the company said in a statement. “It would be more productive than the union puts the same effort to return to the table to finalize a reasonable contract.”

Starbucks Workers United has been unionized from American stores since 2021. Starbucks and the union have not yet concluded a contract agreement, despite its acceptance to return to the negotiation table in February 2024.

The union said this week that he had filed a complaint with the National Council for Labor Relations alleging the fact of not negotiating the new dress code.