Three More Starbucks Locations in Buffalo Will Soon Vote on Unionization

Hyde Park and Downtown La Grange locations announced that they are filing petitions for an election, joining the roughly 18 stores across nearly a dozen states that have filed to unionize so far over the past months.

Workers at Baltimore’s North Charles Street Starbucks location wrote in their letter to CEO Kevin Johnson that Buffalo was an inspiration for their union campaign. They further cited the dangerous working conditions imposed by the company, with “chronic understaffing and a complete lack of agency,” as well as pandemic concerns as a reason for the workers to organize.

The two unionized Buffalo locations “have provided a clear path for us to organize ourselves,” the workers wrote. “We’ve run ourselves ragged in increasingly stressful working conditions without reaping any of the benefits, and the only way to improve these conditions is to organize as a unified working class and assert democratic control over our workplace.”

Hyde Park workers said that customers have “become more aggressive” as the pandemic has dragged on, and the company has failed to recognize employees’ efforts as frontline workers. “[W]e feel that profits have become more important than our well-being, health, and safety,” they wrote. “Even amidst one of the worst global health crises, we have been discouraged from staying home when sick.”

Being encouraged to work while sick seems to be a recurring complaint from Starbucks employees across many locations. Aslast month, the company even forced a worker, Brittany Harrison, to work while sick with cancer and denied her paid sick leave. She was ultimately fired because she spoke out about the company’s union-busting practice as her store was unionizing.

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