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Photo: Apple store opening. Credit -- Flickr Apple store workers in Towson, in northern Baltimore County, recently announced that they are organizing

Workers say Starbucks management is retaliating against union efforts by moving to shut down a shop in Ithaca, New York.

An employee at the upstate New York location said that the coffee giant "wont get away with retaliating against us like this."

The National Labor Relations Board rejected Starbucks Corp.'s bid to quash the counting of unionization ballots from three of its upstate New York restaurants, paving the way for a Thursday vote count that could create the first labor foothold among the coffee chain's thousands of corporate-run U.S. locations.

Starbucks is fighting an expanded effort to unionize its stores, even as a union vote...

Starbucks is fighting an expanded effort to unionize its stores, even as a union vote proceeds at three of the coffee-chain’s locations in Buffalo, New York.

Starbucks is fighting an expanded effort to unionize its stores, even as a union vote proceeds at three of the coffee-chain's locations in Buffalo, New York.

Starbucks is fighting an expanded effort to unionize its stores, even as a union vote...

Starbucks is fighting an expanded effort to unionize its stores, even as a union vote proceeds at three of the coffee-chain's locations in Buffalo, New York. Union organizers from three additional Buffalo-area stores appeared before the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday, aski...

Starbucks is fighting an expanded effort to unionize its stores, even as a union vote proceeds at three of the coffee-chain’s locations in Buffalo, New York.