JUST IN: Employees at two Starbucks coffee shops in Edgewater have voted to unionize, marking the mega-chain’s first organized locations in Chicago, according to the results of a vote count shared by organizers.
Workers from two Starbucks locations in Edgewater celebrate successful unionization votes on May 25, 2022.
“I think that there is a younger generation of workers in Starbucks across the country, and honestly in workplaces across the country, that are ready to stand up for themselves,” said Kayla Menz, who works at the location at Bryn Mawr and Winthrop avenues. It’s part of a nationwide effort to organize Starbucks coffee shops that’s rapidly gained steam since the movement started in Buffalo, New York late last year. Workers at 260 other locations around the U.S. have filed for representation and 90 have won their elections, organizers say.“ led with a really strong, really compassionate first response, but as the pandemic continued to get worse, so too unfortunately did their response.
After Starbucks employees were part of a group of union organizers invited to a meeting earlier this month with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, a company executive complained about the sit-down in a letter to the White House and asked for face time of its own.
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