TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Starbucks’ nationwide discrimination against workers who support unionizing its stores—with Workers United’s help—hasn’t stopped baristas at four out of five stores from voting union in landslide tallies just since May Day, including its first-ever in Florida. And the Boston Globe reported four more Starbucks stores there went union, too.
Ballot tallies at the four stores Workers United listed: 16-1 in Tallahassee, Fla.—the first win in the Sunshine State—12-3 in Farmville, Va., 17-0 at the Ceasar’s Bay Shopping Center store in Brooklyn, N.Y., and 19-8 at the Massapequa Village Square store, marking the union backers’ first victory on Long Island.
At the fifth store, on Great Neck, Long Island, pro-union forces lost 5-6, after 22 instances of company labor law-breaking, formally called unfair labor practices, leading Workers United to file formal charges with the feds.
And in another piece of good news for workers, Alydia Claypool, the Black Lives Matter activist and union organizer who was illegally fired by bosses at the 1-35 and 75th Street Starbucks in Kansas City, Mo., gets her job back, starting the week of May 8.
“This just goes to show you don’t need to be afraid of being fired for organizing your store! You will get justice, it just takes some time,” she tweeted.
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