Starbucks Workers All Over U.S. Organizing Unions

A Starbucks union campaign is spreading across the United States, the New York Times reported.

Photo Insert: Representatives of the Hyde Park & Downtown La Grange Starbucks stores in Chicago after having filed their petitions

After the successful campaign of two stores in Buffalo, Starbucks workers in Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Knoxville in Tennessee, Tallahassee in Florida, and the Denver area are starting to mobilize. Those campaigns, like the two in Buffalo, are being driven by the liberal workers the company has long attracted.

Labor experts say that in seeking such employees, Starbucks may have built a workforce that is more inclined to unionize and to be energized by the organizing efforts in Buffalo.

Separately, a new study estimates that workers without four-year college degrees have been displaced from 7.4 million jobs since 2000. The new figure spotlights the challenges facing workers in occupations that used to be ladders to the middle class.

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