A mega strike at Starbucks disrupts Red cup day

Since November 2, the Starbucks of America have begun to decorate their interiors with snowflakes, trees and Santa Clauses, and to change the color of their paper cups from orange to red. The most awaited day of the increasingly long Christmas period is, for the chain of coffee shops born in Seattle, November 17, the Red cup day, a day in which customers can have a free reusable cup with their “Christmas holidays” themed order (in recent years it was decided to limit the use of the word Christmas so as not to offend other religions). Long queues were expected to get the cup that has become a collector’s item for five years, but just Thursday in a hundred cafeterias over 2,000 employees decided to go on strike to send a signal to the CEO and founder, Howard Schultz. Employees complain that wages are kept at standard levels on such a busy day and the lack of response in negotiations to unionize.