(21 Apr 2022)
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Seattle – 21 April 2022
1. STILLS various of workers/supporters watching and cheering during union vote
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Duran, Starbucks worker:
"I mean, there is just a lot of excitement and a lot of anxiety, you know, as each vote was coming in one by one, you know, like a nail-biting experience worrying, you know, are we going to get the support that we were hoping for? Are we going to win? And it just seeing it all come to fruition, having all of the hard work pay off and know that, you know, our fellow baristas are behind us in this movement is just really exciting and overwhelming."
3. STILLS various of workers/supporters watching and cheering during union vote
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Duran, Starbucks worker:
"A big part of it is just that we don't have a seat at the table, we don't have a voice in our workplace. The, you know, the management decides the way that things are and that's a big part of what we really want to change.
5. Exteriors of Starbucks Reserve Roastery
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Duran, Starbucks worker:
"And that's a big goal for us is being able to afford living where we want to live. You know, if we work here in the city, we were one of the biggest tourist destinations in the city, we help support the industry of tourism in Seattle, we should be allowed to afford to live in the city as well that we help support."
7. Exteriors of Starbuck Reserve Roastery
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Duran, Starbucks worker:
"People have been pushed to the edge more and more and more throughout recent years, and with the breaking point being over, the COVID pandemic really just bringing workers to a point where you realize the power that we really do have. And, you know, saying enough is enough. We can't take anymore and we need to stand up, push back and, you know, take control of our own destinies in a way. And I think it's just it's a movement that speaks to, you know, these new generations of unionizing workers across industries that, you know, we really do have the power and that these past few years have really shown that."
9. Exteriors of Starbucks headquarters
STORYLINE:
Workers at a Starbucks flagship roastery in Seattle voted to form a union, the latest location of the giant coffee chain to unionize.
The Seattle store voted 38-27 to unionize.
Workers United said the 26 Starbucks locations have unionized nationwide. The Starbuck Reserve and Roastery in the Capitol Hill neighborhood is the second Starbucks location in Seattle, the coffee chain's hometown to unionize.
"As we have said throughout, we will respect the process and will bargain in good faith. We hope that the union does the same," said Reggie Borges, a spokesman for Starbucks in a statement.
Starbucks has three of these flagship stores. The Seattle store joined the one in New York in forming a union.
"A big part of it is just that we don't have a seat at the table, we don't have a voice in our workplace. The, you know, the management decides the way that things are and that's a big part of what we really want to change," said Liz Duran, an operations lead at Starbucks.
"People have been pushed to the edge more and more and more throughout recent years, and with the breaking point being over, the COVID pandemic really just bringing workers to a point where you realize the power that we really do have. And, you know, saying enough is enough. We can't take anymore and we need to stand up, push back and, you know, take control of our own destinies in a way," Duran said.
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