After the coffeehouse chain proposed terms for contract negotiations, Workers United, which represents 9,000 employees, said it was open to productive steps.
Workers at more than 150 stores plan to stage strikes over the next week after the union said managers told workers not to decorate for Pride Month, a claim the company has denied.
The union Starbucks Workers United says the chain, after prominently celebrating Pride for years, has banned the displays. The company insists that’s not true and said the examples are an “outlier.”