- 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.
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