A Tallahassee Starbucks on John Knox and North Monroe turned the first Florida location Tuesday to unionize. Workers voted 16-1 in favor of unionization. The placement will work alongside different shops throughout the nation which have additionally voted to unionize, however every retailer will discount individually with the worldwide espresso chain.
“It’s wonderful how a lot assist we obtained and the way many individuals have been watching this,” says Calum Johnson, a barista at the retailer, “as a result of after we posted that our retailer received our election on Twitter, we obtained over 48,000 likes on the tweet, which is so overwhelming, like, none of us know the right way to deal with it.”
Johnson is not sure what’s going to come of the bargaining course of however is trying ahead to having a much bigger say in the phrases of his employment.
“We’re hoping that with what number of shops are submitting for election and what number of which might be profitable,” says Johnson, “we hope that Starbucks will acknowledge us and discount in good religion.”
Two different Starbucks shops in Tallahassee, one on Magnolia Drive and one other on West Tennessee Road have filed their union paperwork however will not be but at the vote-counting stage of the course of.
