Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports on the nationwide Starbucks Workers Strike, a five-day action that ends today on Christmas Eve.  The Starbucks strike is more evidence that underpaid, overworked, stressed-out and exploited Workers, many of them young, Female, People of Color or all of the above, have had it up to here with corporate capitalist greed grabbing the profits they bring in, leaving them pennies.  So they’ve Unionized (which all began in Buffalo, New York), walked or walked out for other jobs, or a combination of the three.  The straw that finally drove the Workers to walk was when Starbucks, in its latest bargaining session with the Workers, finally proposed a pay increase: 2%.  “That works out to about (35) cents.  I don’t know what you can get for (35) cents.  Maybe some bubble gum,” Negotiator Jasmine Leli, of the first store to Unionize in Buffalo three years ago, told a crowd of hundreds in Seattle.

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