The votes were due the day after interim Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said employees who joined a union or were seeking to do so would not be able to access new pay benefits announced this week.
Baristas at a Starbucks location in suburban La Grange voted against forming a union Friday, becoming the first in Illinois to do so after workers at stores in Peoria and Cary voted in favor of joining the union last week.that he said would not apply to employees at stores that have unionized or sought to do so.
Starbucks Workers United, the Service Employees International Union affiliate representing Starbucks workers, has filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board. In a statement Wednesday, the group called Schultz’s plan to exclude unionized stores from the benefits “blatantly unlawful.”A Starbucks spokesperson Wednesday said the company “lacks the right to unilaterally make these changes” at stores “where there is a union or union organizing.
In a statement Friday, organizers said workers had been “forced to undergo five months of aggressive, and quite possibly unlawful union-busting tactics as they waited to vote.”
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