Workers at Unionized New York Starbucks Store Continue Walk out Over Staffing, Safety

Workers at Unionized New York Starbucks Store Continue Walk out Over Staffing, Safety
Mobile orders await pick up at a Starbucks, in Hamburg, a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y., on Dec. 8, 2021. Lindsay DeDario/Reuters
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NEW YORK—Baristas at a Starbucks Corp. location in Buffalo, New York, walked off the job for a second day on Thursday in protest of what they say are unsafe working conditions amid a new rise in COVID-19 cases.

Workers left their positions on Wednesday at the Elmwood Avenue location—the only unionized corporate-owned Starbucks store in the United States—and say they will not return until they feel safe.