We are learning more about the closing of an Upstate Starbucks we first told you about on Monday. A couple dozen employees and supporters gathered Monday outside Starbucks at 4686 Clemson Blvd. and said they were protesting the suspension of workers and the store's closure by management. (Video above aired Monday after protest) Protesters said the store near Interstate 85 has been closed since Saturday after workers collectively gave management a letter listing demands for better working conditions and benefits."Even though their benefits are subpar, Starbucks loves to tout their health care and ASU--free college," shift supervisor and protesting worker Aneil Tripathi told WYFF News 4.But Tripathi said the managers make it difficult for workers to qualify for those benefits."You make sure they schedule you 20 hours a week to make sure you get those benefits, but they intentionally cut hours back so you cannot make that threshold of 20 hours a week and they lose benefits," Tripathi said. "So, the big concern right now is benefits, just because people rely on this job for health care."An email sent to WYFF News 4 by Feldman Strategies, a public relations firm representing the Starbucks employees, said workers at the store collectively presented a letter of demands to their store manager. "Presenting issues and demands to management is protected by federal labor law," the email said.According to the email, the company put the workers on paid time off, suspended them indefinitely, and banned them from visiting any Starbucks location, while closing down the store.On Monday, WYFF News 4 reached out to Starbucks and did not receive a response. Starbucks responded to the request on Wednesday morning. The statement said, in part, "On Monday, August 1, our store manager at I-85 & Clemson Blvd. felt threatened and unsafe as a result of conduct by 11 store partners. This was the store manager’s first day working at this location. Consistent with our longstanding policy, we opened an investigation and suspended with pay the partners involved in the incident. Following the incident, the store manager filed a report with law enforcement, who has directed Starbucks to refrain from engaging with the 11 partners until their investigation is complete. Starbucks will continue to cooperate with law enforcement’s separate investigation and comply with its requests."To read the full statement, click here. WYFF News 4 reached out to the Anderson County Sheriff's Office to get the police report mentioned in the statement. The report said the manager told deputies that employees would not let her leave until they got a raise. The manager told deputies one employee also assaulted her, the report said. The report said the incident was captured on video.