By Noam Scheiber Source: The New York Times Employees at a Buffalo-area Starbucks store have voted to form a union, making it the only one of the nearly 9,000 company-owned stores in the United States to be organized and notching an important symbolic victory for labor at a time when [...]
By Joanna Slater and Greg Jaffe Source: The Washington Post Starbucks workers in Buffalo won a pathbreaking bid to form a union after votes were counted Thursday, part of a wave of labor activism sweeping the country in the midst of the pandemic. The cafe in Elmwood Village will become [...]
By Alina Selyukh and Tom Dinki Source: NPR Starbucks workers in New York are deciding whether they want to join a union, a move that would be unprecedented at stores owned by the company in the United States. More than 80 baristas and shift supervisors from three stores around Buffalo [...]
By Katishi Maake Source: Retail Brew Something could be brewing at Starbucks. Starbucks workers from three Buffalo, New York, stores are set to begin voting on unionization, and if successful, it could mark a major shift for the broader food industry, labor professors told Retail Brew. No corporate-owned US Starbucks [...]