Starbucks workers have voted to form a union in three more stores in the Buffalo region, marking a major triumph for the union, which is facing fierce pushback from the company.
Workers at the Sheridan & Bailey, French & Transit and Walden & Anderson stores are now unionized, voting 15 to 12, 15 to 12 and 8 to 7 in favor of the union, respectively. Six stores have now voted to unionize, with five stores total in Buffalo and one in Mesa, Arizona. Only one location that has had a union election so far has voted against unionization.
“Our mission is to aid in making Starbucks the company that we all want it to be,” Rachel Cohen, a shift supervisor at Sheridan & Bailey, said. “We are ready to bring partners to the table, fill the empty set, and help one another. We cannot do what we strive for without each other. Moving forward together is our best chance at success.”
The vote count was conducted on Wednesday, after the workers’ votes were impounded by the National Labor Relations Board in late February due to a legal challenge from Starbucks. The challenge – alleging that union elections should be held region-wide, rather than store-by-store“Starbucks will imply they had nothing to do with this further delay in the voting process by vaguely gesturing towards the legal process. That is a farce,” Workers United attorney Ian Hayes said at the time.
Starbucks Workers United said that the workers won their union despite “unfair elections.” The three stores had filed their current petitions to unionize over four months ago, and Walden & Anderson had originally filed its petition in September of last year, but withdrew to prevent legal delays for the now-unionized Elmwood location.the store and other Buffalo-area stores that workers were organizing at the time, workers say.
“Starbucks closed our store for two months in the middle of our organizing campaign. They added 20 new partners to our store, so that more than half our staff wasn’t there to experience what conditions were like before we unionized,” said Walden & Anderson barista Colin Cochran.
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