More than 1,000 Starbucks baristas at 75 U.S. stores have gone on strike since Sunday to protest a new company dress code, a union representing the coffee giant's workers said Wednesday.Starbucks put new limits starting Monday on what its baristas can wear under their green aprons. The dress code requires employees at company-operated and licensed stores in the U.S. and Canada to wear a solid black shirt and khaki, black or blue denim bottoms.Under the previous dress code, baristas could wear a broader range of dark colors and patterned shirts. Starbucks said the new rules would make its green aprons stand out and create a sense of familiarity for customers as it tries to establish a warmer, more welcoming feeling in its stores.But Starbucks Workers United, the union that represents workers at 570 of Starbucks맥스카지노� 10,000 company-owned U.S. stores, said the dress code should be subject to collective bargaining.맥스카지노�Starbucks has lost its way. Instead of listening to baristas who make the Starbucks experience what it is, they are focused on all the wrong things, like implementing a restrictive new dress code,맥스카지노� said Paige Summers, a Starbucks shift supervisor from Hanover, Maryland. 맥스카지노�Customers don맥스카지노�t care what color our clothes are when they맥스카지노�re waiting 30 minutes for a latte.맥스카지노�Summers and others also criticized the company for selling styles of Starbucks-branded clothing that employees no longer are allowed to wear to work on an internal website. Starbucks said it would give two free black T-shirts to each employee when it announced the new dress code.Starbucks said Wednesday that the strike was having a limited impact on its 10,000 company-operated U.S. stores. By the union's own count, less than 1% of Starbucks workers are participating in the strikes, and in some cases the strikes closed stores for less than an hour, the company said.맥스카지노�It would be more productive if the union would put the same effort into coming back to the table that they맥스카지노�re putting into protesting wearing black shirts to work," Starbucks said in a statement. "More than 99% of our stores are open today serving customers 맥스카지노� and have been all week.맥스카지노�Starbucks Workers United has been unionizing U.S. stores since 2021. Starbucks and the union have yet to reach a contract agreement, despite agreeing to return to the bargaining table in February 2024.The union said this week that it filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board alleging Starbucks' failure to bargain over the new dress code.