Starbucks Workers United said it had voted to authorize a strike ahead of the year’s last scheduled bargaining session.

In a post on X, the union said 98 percent of its baristas voted to authorize a strike if necessary.

“Our union is STRONG – and we’re READY,” the union said.

The union noted in its statement that its partners have not decided when to go on strike, but the vote was finalized just as delegates returned to the table Tuesday for the last session of the calendar year.

Starbucks and the union have spent hundreds of hours bargaining, and both sides have produced tentative agreements over the year. Still, the company has yet to bring a “comprehensive economic package to the bargaining table,” and other unfair labor practices remain unsolved, the union said.