Starbucks Workers Are Winning 90 Percent of Their Union Elections
Starbucks workers are unionizing at a breakneck pace. We ran the numbers and found that more than 2,000 Starbucks workers are now unionized — and that number will likely triple in the coming months.
Projecting based on current NLRB filings alone, the Starbucks union is likely to have 6,047 workers at 227 locations in the next few months. (Elliot Stoler / Wikimedia Commons)
The unionization drive at Starbucks is taking off.
Late last year, Starbucks Workers United, an affiliate of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), began filing for union elections after organizing at individual stores. This year, that trickle of election filings has built to a wave — and Starbucks workers are winning in location after location.
Using case data from the National Labor Relations Board, I’ve assembled the most up-to-date statistics about the effort.
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