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How Starbucks Workers Won in Mesa
Starbucks workers from a Mesa, Arizona store celebrated their union win alongside local members of Workers United's Western States Regional Joint Board. Photo: WSRJB Workers United SEIU
March 05, 2022 / Saurav Sarkar
Starbucks Workers United (SWU) won its third store election February 28 in Mesa, Arizona. The vote was an overwhelming 25-3, with three additional contested ballots, despite heavy anti-union pressure from the company and in a state with only 5.4 percent union density.
We led with kindness and care and just did our jobs in the face of union-busting from upper management, said shift supervisor Liz Alanna, who helped lead the effort. Shift supervisors coordinate the day-to-day running of a store but are eligible for union membership because they dont have hiring and firing power.
The Mesa store at Powerline and Baseline Roads became the first U.S. company-run store outside Buffalo to be unionized in the recent organizing wave.
Starbucks Workers United is now three for four in the elections held so farand workers at more than 110 more locations have filed or announced their intention to unionize. A Canadian Starbucks also filed to unionize separately with the Steelworkers (USW) in January.
FULL story: https://labornotes.org/2022/03/how-starbucks-workers-won-mesa
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How Starbucks Workers Won in Mesa (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Mar 2022
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Magoo48
(4,659 posts)1. Yes
Union Strong 💪
appalachiablue
(41,054 posts)2. Big K/R, thanks and I want to see more!
mountain grammy
(26,571 posts)3. Great news.
I love that statement. We led with kindness and care and did our jobs
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Bravo! There they go, giving me hope.