The historic union drive at Starbucks stores across the country continues — as does Starbucks’s shameless union-busting effort. Workers say the corporation has been firing employees for trying to unionize — something that a National Labor Relations Board complaint alleges is part of a broader pattern.

On July 27, Joselyn Chuquillanqui, a twenty-eight-year-old shift supervisor who had worked for the company for seven years, was fired from her Starbucks job in Great Neck, New York. Chuquillanqui led an organizing drive with Starbucks Workers United at her store earlier this year. Despite gathering wide support for the union among her coworkers, the union narrowly lost its election in April in the face of Starbucks’ alleged anti-union campaign.

Around the time of the election, Chuquillanqui says she was singled out and written up for minor infractions, in a pattern that escalated until her firing last month. Jacobin’s Nick French spoke with Chuquillanqui about her efforts to organize the store, Starbucks’ campaign of union busting and retaliation, and why she intends to keep fighting for the union.