First St. Louis area Starbucks locations file for union elections
Four area locations join national organizing wave seeking union status
Ladue, MO – Workers at the Starbucks, located at Lindbergh Blvd. and Clayton Road, filed paperwork with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) March 29 calling for a union election to join Starbucks Workers United. Three days later, on April 1, workers at the Natural Bridge and Rock Rd. location in Bridgeton, Mo., also filed for a union election with the NLRB.
On Monday, April 4, workers at two more St. Louis area Starbucks locations announced that they are organizing the stores at Kingshighway Blvd. and Chippewa St. (3700 South Kingshighway Blvd.) and Hampton and Wise avenues (1216 Hampton Avenue) in south St. Louis City.
Employees at the Ladue store complained of managers ignoring safety concerns amid the COVID-19 pandemic, promising, and then delaying raises, and cutting hours so drastically a number of workers have been forced to seek second jobs or quit.
One employee said the store’s former manager announced her resignation in February, telling the staff “Starbucks is going to start doing some stuff and I don’t want to be here for it.”
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