Workers at an Everett Starbucks vote to unionize
EVERETT — Baristas at an Everett Starbucks voted 13-1 to form a union on Wednesday, joining more than a hundred Starbucks stores that have unionized across the country since December.
Employees at the store at Broadway and 37th Street voted to join the Workers United labor union. Union representation gives the workers the right to bargain with the Seattle-based coffee chain over pay and benefits.
Jacob Fullerton, a shift supervisor at the Everett cafe, said he and his colleagues were expecting victory. Several gathered in the store’s lobby with a laptop to watch the vote count via livestream.
Since the start, Fullerton said, the union effort has “been about workers having an actual say in their working conditions and compensation.”
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