In June 2011, Starbucks operations in Chile were disrupted by a strike at 31 stores because union employees felt Starbucks should have done more to demonstrate concern for its employees. According to an article published in the Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition (Jargon, 2011), the union presented Starbucks with a list of demands that included a wage increase, a $100 monthly lunch bonus, and 100% employee coverage. employees by the company. employee healthcare costs. Starbucks faces an ethical conflict because, according to Starbucks spokesman Jim Olson, he believes the union's demands exceed industrial and commercial norms for Chile. The article states that Starbucks pays workers the equivalent of 2.50 dollars an hour and the union believes they should earn more. Analyzing wages using a currency calculator programmed for 2011 exchange rates, a worker would earn the equivalent of $100 per week working 40 hours per week. This means that the employees earned approximately 225,000 pesos per month. The minimum wage in Chile in 2011 was 183,000 pesos per month (Min...