Starbucks’s continuing efforts to stop a year-long union drive at its coffee shops in the United States is in full steam. Nearly one hundred workers, including at least twelve in the last month, have now been fired.

Last weekend, five workers were fired in Anderson, South Carolina. Three of them — Aneil Tripathi, Jon Hudson, and Rhi Greer — had taken part in a “march on the boss,” in which workers collectively present a set of demands to their manager, on August 1. The manager deemed the action “kidnapping” and “assault,” and pressed charges against the workers. They and eight others were suspended indefinitely when Tripathi, Hudson, and Greer were fired. “They’ve gone full throttle,” says Hudson, the former barista.

The workers were told by management that they were fired for being in the store after hours over a month ago. Tripathi, Hudson, Greer, and others had been getting the story ready for business the next shift after their second strike. “We were literally showing responsibility and helping the store,” says former shift supervisor Tripathi.