Over 470 Starbucks locations have unionized since 2021. This latest one in Center City is the 13th location in the Philadelphia area to join Starbucks Workers United.
Starbucks voted to unionize this week . The coffee shop, located at 16th and Walnut Streets, is the 13th Starbucks in the Philadelphia area and the 34th in Pennsylvania to join Starbucks Workers United, which represents
The Philly location is the latest to join the union amid a national wave of organizing efforts by workers employed at Starbucks which“I’m really happy we, the store, got together and made a change. We’re moving forward like a team, and it’s good to not only feel the unity within us, but to actually see it as well,” Anthal Arizaga, a shift supervisor at the Center City location, said in a statement about the Monday decision.
Noah Dixon, a barista at the newly unionized Philly location who has been working there a little over a year, says he’s feeling good about the next steps with the union. “We have to put a lot of pressure on Starbucks to actually come to the bargaining table and provide real change, because otherwise they won’t,” he said.“Learning what Starbucks Workers United really is representing was really exciting to me,” said Dixon.shortly after workers informed him that they intended to unionize. Feibush explained that the business hadn’t been profitable and noted increased costs, reduced sales and expiring leases.
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