Union leaders say the win at one Starbucks will energize similar pushes across the country
, its highest since the 1960s, according to a Gallup poll in August, with support among people ages 18 to 34 at 77%.
“We’ve been fighting our entire lives as leaders, as rank-and-file members, to grow our organizations, and I think it’s our time,” Sean O’Brien, theof the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal. The unionization of one of Starbucks’s 9,000 stores is likely to have little immediate impact on the company’s day-to-day operations and business, executives said. In a letter to workers Thursday, Starbucks’s North America President Rossann Williams said the results would have no immediate impact on how the company works with employees. “Put simply, we continue on as we did today, yesterday and the day before that,” Ms. Williams wrote.
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