At Starbucks stores across the nation, a burgeoning labor movement is being led by young female and LGBTQ employees. “This new generation,' said a labor organizer with Workers United, “is going to be the one to bring unions back.”
“This new generation is going to be the one to bring unions back,” said Stephanie Hernandez, a Workers United organizer who has been supporting union efforts in Maryland. Virtually all the Starbucks employees who have reached out to her have been LGBTQ, women or people of color, she said, with some as young as 18. Many of them were drawn to Starbucks because of the liberal ideals that the Seattle-based company espoused.
In April 2021, Miller went for gender affirming top surgery at Johns Hopkins University. Pandemic restrictions meant no visitors so when Miller woke up from the anesthetic, he was alone. Underneath his bandages, he could feel that his chest was flat. He wept with joy. Frustrated, Miller texted a group chat he had with the store’s three other shift supervisors. He made his message plain.The counting started at 6 p.m. An election official took voting slips out of the box one by one. Two yesses, then a no.
The election official flipped over the box to show there were no more ballots. Then came the final count: 9 yesses, 4 nos. Store #9835 had voted to unionize.
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