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Starbucks workers at 150 stores go on strike over Pride decorations


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CNN
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Workers at about 150 unionized Starbucks stores in the United States are going on strike Friday over a dispute about the coffee chain’s policy for Pride decorations in stores.

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Workers United, the union representing organized stores, has claimed that Starbucks

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has restricted decorations celebrating Pride month in some locations, demonstrating a “hypocritical treatment of LGBTQIA+ workers.” Starbucks

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has forcefully denied this claim.

About 3,500 employees “will be on strike over the course of the next week,” Starbucks Workers United posted in a tweet.

Store leaders are able to decorate stores as they wish for Pride and other heritage months, as long as those decorations adhere to safety guidelines, according to the company. Starbucks said it is not aware of any company-owned stores that have banned Pride decorations.

The company also pointed out that many stores have shared their Pride decorations on social media.

“We unwaveringly support the LGBTQIA2+ community. There has been no change to any policy on this matter and we continue to encourage our store leaders to celebrate with their communities including for US Pride month in June,” a Starbucks spokesperson said, adding, “We’re deeply concerned by false information that is being spread.”

However, the union responded on Twitter that the company’s “own responses have not been consistent” based on internal documents and testimonies from store managers.

“Starbucks gives autonomy to local leaders to ‘find ways to celebrate.’ These leaders are the same ones issuing many of the Pride bans,” it said pointing to an article that Pride decor was banned from about 100 locations across parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. Those locations are in some of the more conservative regions of a deeply divided United States. Many Starbucks locations across the country have been displaying Pride decorations.

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South Africa Hit by Financial investment Strike, Vital Mining Employer Suggests

(Bloomberg) — Traders have shed faith in South Africa’s federal government and have halted investment decision despite a wealth of opportunities, the head of the country’s most significant employer in the essential mining market claimed. 

More than 200 times of energy cuts past 12 months and blackouts each and every working day so significantly in 2023 have dented self-assurance, as has the poor efficiency of the state transportation utility and a myriad of other difficulties. Pledges to enact reforms to spur the overall economy have arrive to small, reported Neal Froneman, main govt officer at Sibanye Stillwater Ltd.

“There is much a lot more that we can make investments in and the relaxation of South African enterprises can make investments in if the weather was various, if we experienced electrical power, if we had crystal clear procedures and if it was additional environmentally pleasant,” Froneman claimed in an job interview past week. “Business investment in South Africa is on strike until finally points make improvements to.”

Corruption, crime and combined messages from federal government ministers as to how promptly the state will transition to cleaner vitality has also drawn criticism from a selection of business enterprise leaders. Financial commitment has been confined mainly to preserving current firms managing alternatively than expanding their operations. 

Mining accounted for 4% of gross domestic item in 2022, used about 476,000 men and women and created 878 billion rand ($50 billion) of exports, according to the Minerals Council South Africa, a lobby team symbolizing most mining groups running in the nation. 

Largely as a consequence of the issues Froneman laid out, economic advancement is anemic with economists surveyed by Bloomberg forecasting expansion of 1.2% this year. Unemployment at 32.9% is among the the maximum throughout far more than 80 nations tracked by Bloomberg.

“Investors are