Workers were overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing, voting 25-3. Forty-three ballots in total were initially mailed out, organizers said.
Several workers from a Mesa Starbucks store cheered and hugged at a local union hall after the results came in.
Tyler Ralston, another shift supervisor, said he is excited that workers now may be able to make meaningful changes. The Seattle-based coffee giant argued that a single store should not be allowed to hold a vote. Instead, a vote should include all the locations in that store’s assigned district.The organizers in Mesa called the request a “union busting” tactic by the company, Alanna said. She also alleged Starbucks implemented other strategies like having upper-level managers shadow workers to make sure they weren’t organizing.