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Workers at three Buffalo-area Starbucks stores will have to wait longer to find out whether they’ll be the company’s next unionized locations.
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It took Canadian Starbucks workers 10 months to reach their contract agreement last June, and that was in a country where over a quarter of the workforce is unionized and there’s labor law advantages that Buffalo workers simply don’t have under U.S. labor law.
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Workers at a Cheektowaga store voted 15-9 in favor of representation by Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. The National Labor Relations Board confirmed the vote Monday.
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Employees of a Starbucks store in upstate New York who voted to unionize last month walked off the job, saying they lacked the staff and resources to work safely amid surging COVID-19 cases.
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The National Labor Relations Board confirmed a vote Friday to form a union at a Starbucks store in Buffalo, meaning the coffee retailer, for the first time, will have to bargain with organized labor at a company-owned U.S. store.
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The Starbucks on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo has voted to become the coffee giant’s first unionized location in the U.S., while another local store voted against unionizing and a third's results have yet to be finalized.
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Three Buffalo-area stores participated in a mail-in vote over the last month to decide whether to become the company’s first unionized stores in the U.S. The ballots are set to be counted at 1 p.m. Thursday.
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Starbucks Workers United, the group of baristas trying to make Buffalo-area locations the coffee giant’s first unionized stores in the U.S., says almost a third of workers participating in the union vote are ineligible.
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A national focus is on the votes from employees at three area Starbucks stores who are deciding if they will become the first of the coffee company's 9,000 corporate-owned stores to unionize.
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A Buffalo-area union organizing campaign announced Wednesday that workers at two more Starbucks locations have filed petitions for a vote whether to unionize. Workers, while providing an update Wednesday, claimed Starbucks executives have been visiting local stores to engage with workers, and they believe the purpose is to sway the vote.