Starbucks Barista: We Are out on Strike Because Starbucks Is Implementing a Dress Code

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HALDEMAN: "My name is Ash Haldeman, I've been a barista at the Lincoln Highway Starbucks here for a little over three years. We're out on strike today because Starbucks is trying to implement a new dress code. No one ever asked for a new dress code. They just — they updated a dress code recently and it made it looser where we can wear colors and patterns. And now they're deciding that we can only wear black, it's very restrictive, most of us had to buy new clothes and we can't, we can't afford it. We barely make enough money to pay our bills. And also on top of that, they keep trying to make all these changes in union stores and it's illegal. They're not allowed to make these changes without bargaining with us and voting on this. So it's just incredibly alarming and upsetting that Starbucks is continuing to do illegal things to our union stores. And so we’re out here. We’re out here making sure that they know that we’re still here and that we're fighting for that contract."