The newly elected mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, has sparked serious outrage across the board after publicly calling for a boycott of Starbucks.
The news comes as he expressed solidarity with its striking workers. They rolled out an open-ended strike across more than 40 different US cities, timed to coincide with Starbucks’ high traffic Red Cup Day promotional event.
This union contends that contract negotiations have stalled and that the firm is busy engaging in unfair labor practices.
Meanwhile, Starbucks mentioned how less than 4% of its American retail workers are unionized and that most of the company’s stores are open with strong sales.
Mamadani did not waste any time and chose to go to social media to declare how Starbucks workers across the nation are on an unfair labor practices strike. They are fighting for a fair contract, they added.
‘No contract, no coffee!’- he mentioned. His intervention is signaling how strongly he’s aligned with labor rights movements and foreshadows how he could use this mayoral platform to put forward issues of workers.