Worcester Starbucks workers file to unionize, joining national movement
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Workers at the Starbucks on East Central Street in Worcester have approved the effort to unionize.
Workers at the Starbucks on East Central Street in Worcester announced their intent to unionize in a letter to Howard Schultz, interim president and CEO of the Seattle-based coffee shop chain.
The choice to form a union was a “response to recent work conditions with the intent to remedy and build beyond [a] currently unstable workplace,” the letter said.
The letter was filed in the National Labor Relations Board database on March 26, and signed by seven individuals, as well as “many others, who feel safer in anonymity.”
Worcester’s Starbucks is now one of 13 Starbucks in Massachusetts to file a petition to unionize, according to the organization Starbucks Workers United. A store in Brookline filed its unionization petition the same day.
Union efforts at Starbucks have swept the nation this year, as nine shops have already voted to form unions. On Friday, workers at a Starbucks in New York received NLRB certification for their union vote, and Amazon workers in New York became the first Amazon location to unionize.
“We see the bravery of those before us, and it has inspired us to embark upon our own journey,” the Worcester Starbucks wrote in their letter.
The coffee shop is located at 11 East Central Street across the street from Saint Vincent Hospital, where union nurses held a 300-day strike in 2021.
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