A series of union organizers, Starbucks Workers United members, local activists, political figures, and supporters spoke at a press conference outside of the soon-to-be-closed Starbucks on College Avenue in Ithaca, N.Y. Wednesday afternoon.
Speakers at the press conference urged an Ithaca-wide boycott of Starbucks and its cafés until the company negotiates to keep the Collegetown store open. Some employees still haven’t gotten word from the company about whether they’ll have jobs after the closure.
“We can’t let Starbucks decide to close a union store two months after we won a vote just because all of the workers here won’t let managers talk to us however way they want to,
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