Joining well over 300 Starbucks locations across the country, workers at the Renton Village location have officially filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to unionize with Starbucks Workers United.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Jan. 30, the Renton Village workers sent a letter to Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan to announce their organizing campaign, saying that they are unionizing because local workers face short-staffing, inconsistent scheduling, health and safety hazards and accusing Starbucks of putting “profits over partners.”<\/p>\n
“Our store has had a lot of issues that have gotten more intense over time,” said Jay Richardson, who has been a barista at the Renton Village location for two years. “I realized my options were to quit and end up with the same problems at another job. Or I could stand up, support my coworkers, and start doing something about those problems. Workers are strongest when we’re united.”<\/p>\n
From a press release, the Renton Village partners said that by unionizing, they were joining a “quickly expanding nationwide movement of over 9,000 baristas organizing together for justice, fighting for improvements on core issues including respect, living wages, racial and gender equity and fair scheduling.”<\/p>\n
More than 360 Starbucks stores in 42 states and the District of Columbia have voted to unionize since 2021. There are currently over 9,000 Starbucks locations in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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