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• The fund would cover the lost pay for the Starbucks workers who go on a strike
Workers United, the union supporting Starbucks Corp’s (NASDAQ: SBUX) employees, said it created a $1 million fund for the baristas going on strike.
Starbucks faces major unionization push from its US baristas as nine of its locations have voted to unionize.
The fund would cover the lost pay for the Starbucks workers who go on a strike.
More than 170 US locations have filed petitions for a union election since August.
Interim CEO Howard Schultz had announced earlier that the company would suspend billions of dollars of stock buybacks and would focus on the employees and customers.
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