On Wednesday, the company outlined its new pay plan.
None of Starbucks’s nearly 9,000 corporate-owned stores in the country are unionized, though many of the stores owned by companies that have a licensing agreement with Starbucks have unions, and a corporate-owned store in Canada recently unionized.
The campaign represents the most serious union effort at Starbucks in years. The company had argued that employees at all 20 Buffalo-area stores should vote in a single election. In a win for the union seeking to represent the employees, the three stores will vote in separate elections, meaning that workers need only a majority of votes cast at a single location to form a union. 8, an official with the National Labor Relations Board ruled Thursday. Workers at three Buffalo-area stores will vote on whether to form a union in a mail-in election ending Dec. Starbucks employees in upstate New York seeking to unionize notched a victory in their effort on Thursday, a day after the company, which is facing a staffing shortage, said that it would raise wages for U.S.
