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Starbucks workers have voted to unionize in Buffalo, New York over the company's objections, pointing the way to a new labor model for the 50-year old coffee giant

Staff at one branch vote to unionise, the first in the coffee chain's own stores since the 1980s.

Starbucks workers have voted to unionize in Buffalo, New York over the company's objections, pointing the way to a new labor model for the 50-year old coffee giant

A high-profile organizing campaign inside the coffee giant may culminate with the counting of ballots in upstate New York as early as Dec. 9.

Starbucks Worked United, the group of baristas trying to make Buffalo-area locations the coffee giant’s first unionized stores in the U.S., say almost a third of workers participating in the union vote are ineligible.

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

Starbucks employees in Buffalo are set to cast an official vote on unionizing by December 8.

Efforts by Starbucks Corp. workers to unionize have spread to Arizona, while stores in the Buffalo, N.Y., area have seen a shake-up in leadership amid the union drive there.

If workers vote in favor of organizing, it will mark the first successful attempt at unionization at Starbucks and could make waves in the industry.

If workers vote in favor of organizing, it will mark the first successful attempt at unionization at Starbucks and could make waves in the industry.