SEATTLE—More than 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers, representing 65 stores in over 40 different cities, are striking across the country as of Thursday, November 13, to protest what they’re calling “stalled contract negotiations” with the Seattle-based coffee giant.

The union’s demands are for a fair union contract with improved staffing, hours, take-home pay, and on-the-job protections, it says.

According to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Administrative Law Judges have found Starbucks to have committed over 400 labor law violations, including firing pro-union employees, threatening store closures, spying, intimidating, and creating policies that hinder union activity.

Starbucks, on the other hand, has disagreed with the judge’s decisions.

“If Starbucks keeps stonewalling a

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