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Pro-union pins sit on a table during a watch party for Starbucks' employees union election, December 9, 2021, in Buffalo, New York
STARBUCKS workers at Buffalo’s Genesee Street cafe became the latest to join the Starbucks Workers United revolution sweeping the United States after voting in favour of union representation.
The National Labour Relations Board ruled in favour of the global coffee chain’s employees, who had voted to unionise by a margin of 15 to nine.
Starbucks challenged the initial count, claiming that some of the votes had been cast by workers at another branch.
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street