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Hundreds of Starbucks workers across the country are using the company’s lucrative holiday season to bring attention to labor violations.

Following multiple successful union elections last year, Oklahoma City Starbucks workers are still waiting on contracts. Access to gender-affirming care is one of their top priorities.

Oklahoma City Starbucks union workers went on strike over the weekend in response to Pride Month displays being banned at more than 100 locations in the region.

Starbucks Workers United said the National Labor Relations Board has investigated their complaints about the company’s federal labor violations at two stores in Oklahoma City, one in Nichols Hills, and one in Norman.

Starbucks workers went on strike for the first time ever in Oklahoma on Sunday. At the unionized store on 23rd Street and Robinson Avenue in Oklahoma City, baristas refused to work and instead spent the morning picketing.

Following the first win for Starbucks unions in the state, union organizers speculate this is part of a new wave in the long history of the labor movement in Oklahoma.

The Starbucks on 23rd and Robinson in Oklahoma City became the state’s first store to win a union.

Many Starbucks employees in Oklahoma are unhappy with corporate and higher management.