Workers United News

Five Starbucks stores in the Richmond area have become the first of the coffee chain’s locations in Virginia to unionize.

Starbucks fired the 20-year-old barista and organizer just days before employees begin voting on whether to unionize.

Employees at six more Starbucks coffee shops voted to join Workers United, a labor union affiliated with the SEIU.

Since the first corporate Starbucks location voted to unionize late last year, 10 others have voted. Only one store has voted against unionizing. The latest and largest Starbucks to unionize is the company’s flagship store in Manhattan, which voted 46-36 on Friday to unionize.

Neither a COVID resurgence or construction sheds at the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire—Greene St. and Washington Place— stopped committed activists from marking the anniversary of one of the deadliest industrial accidents in U. S. history.

Workers at a Starbucks store in Knoxville, Tennessee, voted eight to seven to form a union on Tuesday, becoming the first of the U.S. coffee chain's stores in the South to unionize,