The Starbucks unionizing effort is remarkable, not only because of its speed — more than 40 Starbucks stores have voted to unionize — but also because food and drink establishments have traditionally been among the least unionized workplaces in the U.S.
Protesters march in Seattle during the “Fight Starbucks’ Union Busting” rally and march on April 23, 2022.
An NPR analysis of union election petitions filed with the NLRB found that a decade ago, fewer than 4% of union election petitions came from the accommodations and food services industry — mostly hotel and cafeteria workers seeking representation. One notable exception was a Panera Bread shop in Michigan.
Other factors contributing to the recent wave of organizing: a labor-friendly administration in the White House, a Democratic majority on the NLRB, and a strong labor market. Job openings remain at record highs, leading some workers to cast aside fears over speaking out and demanding more from their employers.Not all workers seeking to organize do so through the union election process.
But since 2012, the share of petitions coming from manufacturing companies has fallen by about half, according to NPR’s analysis. Bronfenbrenner says the drop has come as employers have moved or threatened to move jobs elsewhere to get away from unions. But there are also groups of workers seeking union representation in 2022 that are nowhere to be seen in the 2012 data: Amazon warehouse workers, college students working as residential advisors, “budtenders” at more than a dozen cannabis shops.
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