Starbucks Faces Rare Union Challenge as Buffalo Workers Seek Vote
The New York Times
The organizing campaign, if successful, could upend the company’s labor model. Employees say chronic understaffing has long caused frustration.
For years, Starbucks workers have complained about the company’s labor practices, saying that chronic understaffing has led to a chaotic work environment, erratic hours and difficulty taking sick days. Despite periodic commitments by Starbucks to revise its policies, the complaints lingered and appeared to intensify during the pandemic, when overstretched workers also had to contend with new health concerns and safety protocols. Now the longstanding frustrations are fueling one of the most serious union campaigns ever to confront the company, whose more than 8,000 corporate-owned locations in the United States are not unionized.
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