The new date is Dec 9, 2021.
The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday that employees at a Starbucks store in New York voted to form a union despite the coffee giant's opposition.
Starbucks employees watch a screen as votes are counted in Buffalo, New York.
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Workers at three Starbucks locations voted in a union election.
Workers at a store in Buffalo's Elmwood neighborhood voted 19-8 in favor of a union, a second location rejected unionization (12-8) and vote counting was underway for the third store as of 2:45 p.m. The time is later.
Starbucks employs 235,000 people in the U.S. and none of them had been unionized.
The baristas at the three locations said they were struggling with a surge in mobile app orders, and that workers were demanding to discuss their wages and work environment.
Howard Shultz, the former CEO of Starbucks, went to Buffalo to convince workers to vote against a union, according to CNBC.
Kevin Johnson, the CEO of Starbucks, told Jim Cramer that the company willnavigate through this by just operating as one Starbucks.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that 1.2% of workers at food services and drinking businesses were unionized in 2020. That figure is lower than in the public sector, where it is 34.8%.
The key background.
Starbucks Workers United filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board accusing the coffee chain of attempting to squash the union drive through a campaign of threats, intimidation, and surveillance. Starbucks was denied their request to expand the union election to all stories in Buffalo. The union drive has gained the support of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who hosted an online session for Starbucks workers in a few Buffalo locations earlier this week. Starbucks pays for workers' university tuition and offers benefits that include gender reassignment surgeries for trans employees and paid parental leave.
What to watch for.
Will more Starbucks workers unionize? Starbucks didn't have union representation before Thursday's vote. In Philadelphia and New York City in the early 2000s, there were previous union drives. The results could give a boost to workers who are trying to unionize at other locations.
There is a structure called the Tangent.
Several large employers have faced union actions recently. The labor market is tight and workers at four of the cereals plants are on strike. The company offered to increase pay by 3%. The company said it is replacing 1,400 employees involved in the strike. The National Labor Relations Board ordered a second union election at a warehouse in Alabama for Amazon, after the company faced allegations of intimidation during an unsuccessful drive to form the company's first U.S. union earlier this year.
The Starbucks union drive was spurred by barista burnout.
The deal to replace 1,400 strikers was rejected.
Starbucks workers filed a complaint against the company.
