Starbucks Workers United, representing approximately 9,000 baristas in 550 stores, has voted to strike on Thursday, Nov. 13 during the company’s ‘Red Cup Day’ promotion.

Thousands of Starbucks baristas voted overwhelmingly to authorize a national strike on one of the coffeehouse chain’s biggest promotion days.

As Starbucks baristas threaten a national strike, UH students are adding pressure of their own - asking administrators to sever ties with the coffee giant over what they call anti-union tactics.

Workers at the first Starbucks in Des Moines to unionize have joined a national vote to authorize a strike beginning this month