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Longmont Starbucks workers at the 17th and Hover store have become the latest coffee shop workforce to join a union.

Fenrir Larsen loves coffee and loves his job but demoted himself after nearly 9 years because of a "hard time getting management to hear me."

Baristas at the Longmont Starbucks location at 17th Avenue and Hover Street have filed petitions with the National Labor Relations Board to join the Starbucks Workers United union. Workers in Longmont were among employees at 21 Starbucks coffee shops to join a nationwide unionization push in February. “Across the country management is cutting hours, writing inconsistent and unreliable schedules, and placing more and more work on fewer and fewer partners,” the workers wrote in a letter to S...

Workers from 21 stores, including Denver and Boulder area locations, are fighting for their rights.