Starbucks workers deliver union a win, a loss, at two New York stores

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BUFFALO, N.Y. : Starbucks Corp employees on Thursday voted to join a union at one store in Buffalo, New York, but rejected the union at a second location in the city.Employees at one Starbucks location in Buffalo voted to join Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. The

BUFFALO, N.Y. : Starbucks Corp employees on Thursday voted to join a union at one store in Buffalo, New York, but rejected the union at a second location in the city.

Both the union and the Seattle-based coffee chain could challenge the outcome of the election. If the results for the first store hold, however, the company would gain its first unionized location in the United States in decades. About 15 Starbucks employees who support the union drive had gathered in a room in Buffalo to watch results. Many jumped, screamed and hugged when they realized they had enough votes to win the store on Elmwood Avenue.Baristas and shift supervisors from the second location on Camp Road voted 12-8 to reject the union.The company had several unionized cafes and a roastery in the United States the 1980s, but all eventually decertified.

"Although it's a small number of workers, the result has huge symbolic importance," said John Logan, a labor professor at San Francisco State University."Workers who want to form a union in the United States are forced to take a considerable amount of risk, and it helps if they can see others who have taken that risk and it has paid off."

 

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