Employees working at a Starbucks store in Little Tokyo have sent a letter declaring their intent to form a union. Staff have expressed being stressed and overworked and hope unionizing will provide some relief.
Support for LAist comes fromJosie Serrano, a barista who’s worked at Starbucks for four years, is helping lead the effort in Long Beach alongside Lakewood. While both stores were considering a union separately, Serrano teamed up with Tyler Keeling, a barista trainer who’s on his store’s union committee.
“There was a growing understanding that this was so much bigger than just like a small chunk of us,” Serrano said in an interview. “It was not only our store, not only Tyler’s store but the entire country.” Serrano and Keeling, who have different managers, took pains to say that they hold an immense amount of respect and appreciation for their store’s leaders — but the union effort is tied to issues outside of their scope.
“[My manager] has bent over backwards to support us and make sure we feel taken care of as partners in our store, but she is a finite resource in a company that has very strict ways of things happening,” Keeling said. “And nothing she can do can change that she is one person in a bigger company, and a chain of command.”
The L.A. County stores are at different stages of unionization — the Chatsworth location is waiting for its election date while the store in Little Tokyo and others are still preparing for their first hearing date. Workers United expects more stores in L.A. to join the union drive.“I feel it’s just like jitters, right? It's all new,” De La Cruz said. “I can't believe it's finally happening.
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