A second Starbucks in Maine may unionize
Another group of workers from a Maine branch of Starbucks wants to unionize.
If the employees at 176 Middle St. in Portland are successful, they would make the Old Port coffee shop the second Starbucks in the state to organize.
In a letter to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, posted Tuesday evening on Twitter, workers said they are organizing because “we want our voices to be heard in the company on equal footing … That will bring authentic, genuine, heartfelt prevailing equality to each and every single individual partner at our store.”
The letter was signed by Mandie Cantrell, Codie Dow and Maxwell Gonzolez under the name of the Starbucks Workers United Organizing Committee.
In July, employees of a Starbucks in Biddeford became the first of the giant coffee-shop chain’s employees in the state to form a union.
Employees there voted 9-3 to be represented by Starbucks Workers United, according to the National Labor Relations Board. A total of 24 employees were eligible to vote.
The election follows a slew of union elections since December at nearly 300 of the Seattle-based company’s 9,000 U.S. stores. Most of the ballots have resulted in victories for the union, it has said.
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