These efforts are a sign of changing dynamics in the current US labor market, with employers unable to find the number of workers they want — and many more workers willing to walk away. It's also a sign of growing activity among labor unions and workers.
"I was actually against unions," said the 37-year-old single mom."I'd heard a lot of bad things about the unions." She liked her store manager at the Dollar General in Barkhamsted, Connecticut. She considers the other employees in the store to be like family:"I wake up and I want to go to work," she said.
William Westlake, left, and Jaz Brisack, two of the Buffalo, New York, Starbucks employees who are leading the effort to organize stores there. The organizing effort is one a number underway at high profile companies, including Amazon and Dollar General."I've worked other places. I think Starbucks better than other companies in the industry.
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