Arizona Starbucks becomes 1st outside New York to unionize
ABC News
Employees at a Starbucks in suburban Phoenix voted Friday to form a union, becoming the first store outside New York to organize
MESA, Ariz. -- Employees at a Starbucks in suburban Phoenix voted Friday to form a union, becoming the first store outside New York to organize.
Several workers from a Mesa Starbucks store cheered and hugged at a local union hall after the results came in. Workers were overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing, voting 25-3. Forty-three ballots in total were initially mailed out, organizers said.
“The way that we smoked them with how many we got — yeses — that really shows that this is really a movement for people and we just want what is kind of an inalienable right for people,” said Liz Alanna, a shift supervisor at the store. “It feels good what we were fighting for, everybody wanted.”
Starbucks “will respect the process and will bargain in good faith,” spokesman Reggie Borges said in an email.
