Santa Cruz Starbucks Employees Vote To Unionize

CBS San Francisco

May 12, 2022

Workers at two Santa Cruz Starbucks stores have voted overwhelming to unionize, the first two coffee shops in California to join an emerging movement across the country to organized the Seattle-based behemoth's baristas and shift supervisors.

The measure to join Workers United passed by a 15-2 margin at the Starbucks store at Mission and Dufour streets and by a 13-1 count at the Starbucks located on Ocean and Water streets. Results of a vote at a third location was expected over the next few days.

The union said workers at 63 Starbucks stores across the country have now unionized.

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