SEATTLE — Workers at a downtown Starbucks are on strike months after filing for a union election.

Chants of "Hey hey, ho ho, union busting has got to go!" rung outside of the Starbucks on 5th Avenue and Pike Street Friday morning, and another picket is planned for 9 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday.

According to the Starbucks Worker Solidarity Twitter account, the Eastlake Starbucks was also closed early Friday as employees joined the strike downtown.

The group says employees of the downtown Starbucks filed for a union election in January and “since then, they have faced intense union-busting from Starbucks corporate, including threatening, intimidating and retaliating against union leaders. Management has ignored deteriorating working conditions, leaving staff overworked and underpaid.”

A Starbucks spokesperson responded to KOMO's request for comment with the following:

"We are listening and learning from the partners in these stores as we always do across the country. These are important issues and we respect our partners’ right to share their perspectives... We have fully honored the process laid out by the NLRB and encouraged our partners to exercise their right to vote in the election to have their voices heard. Any claims of union busting are false... We cannot give benefits to partners in unionized stores unilaterally. We would first have to bargain with the union to do so. It is the law."

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