Workers United News

Workers at a Starbucks in Santa Cruz filed a union petition with the National Labor Relations Board, the first California store to join a growing national push to organize baristas and shift supervisors at the coffee giant.

Employees of the Starbucks at 1209 N. Charles St., in Midtown-Belvedere, announced their plans to organize last week. In a letter signed by 15 workers and shared on Twitter Jan. 15, they wrote that they "make Starbucks products for less than living wages and receive none of the profit, all the while being offered benefits that in no way equal our efforts."

Janessa Voyce, a first-year student at University of Oregon, didn’t expect to get involved with a union drive when she started working at the Starbucks at 29th and Willamette in Eugene.

Employees at a Memphis Starbucks are looking to unionize. They say their campaign will not only help employees, but customers as well.

The liberal workers the company has long attracted are expanding a union campaign to other cities after a landmark victory in Buffalo.

A sudden swarm of snooping supervisors. An anti-union meeting where the union-buster speaker lies about its purpose—and a worker calls the speaker out on it. Writing up another worker for going to visit his sick mother in the hospital. Welcome to some of the abuses Starbucks has visited upon its 30 workers at its store at 6807 East Baseline Road in Mesa, Ariz., because, as one said, they dare to vote to unionize.