Workers United News

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.

A Starbucks location in Eugene was the first in Oregon to file a union petition with the National Labor Relations Board last week, the first step toward a unionization vote.

Workers at four Starbucks stores across the country filed petitions for union elections with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the course of the last week, the latest in a swelling wave of labor activism that has swept the coffee giant since workers at one location in Buffalo, New York, voted to unionize a month ago.

The National Labor Relations Board announced Monday that it had certified a victory for a union at a second Starbucks store in the Buffalo area, where votes were tallied in December but remained inconclusive as the union challenged the ballots of several employees it said did not work at the store.

Workers at a Starbucks in Cleveland banded together and petitioned the National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) for unionization, pushing to become the coffee chain's first union store in Ohio, according to Starbucks Workers United union.

Starbucks partners at Genesee St. won a major victory when the NLRB ruled that the attempt by Starbucks to pack the voting list with partners from another store was not legitimate.