Starbucks Employees In Boston Seek To Form Union: Report

by Shivani Kumaresan, Benzinga Staff Writer

December 14, 2021 9:02 AM | 1 min read |

Starbucks Corp SBUX employees at two locations in Massachusetts filed paperwork seeking to unionize on December 13, 2021, Bloomberg reports.
Workers at locations in Boston and nearby Brookline requested votes on joining Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union.
The move comes after employees of the coffeehouse chain in New York state became the first to create the labor foothold.
The report quoted Richard Bensinger, the former AFL-CIO organizing director spearheading the Starbucks campaign for Workers United, saying that the group’s primary focus is winning a contract in New York. Still, he said, “if anyone wants help organizing, we’re going to give it to them.”
Price Action: SBUX shares are trading lower by 0.86% at $114.57 in premarket on the last check Tuesday.