This past week, Starbucks workers in Alpharetta and Roswell experienced a victory years in the making.
Workers at the North Point and Haynes Bridge location voted 14 to 0 on Sunday to join Starbucks Workers United, a labor movement of 10,500 baristas at 460 stores. According to the union’s X, workers at Holcomb Bridge and Holcomb Way also voted 12-2 to unionize.
Per a Monday press release, Starbucks Workers United unites the stores “to win justice at work, including protections on core issues like respect, living wages, racial and gender equity and fair scheduling.”
After Starbucks locations began unionizing in 2021, unionized stores now span 44 states and the District of Columbia, making the company with the most successful store unionizations in the 21st century, according to the union.
“We’re very excited to be a unionized store!” said Erica Dunn, a three-year shift supervisor at one of the Alpharetta Starbucks locations, in Monday’s press release. “I can’t wait to get our store back so I can enjoy going to work again.”
