A Starbucks employee involved in the unionizing effort at a Raleigh location lost her job with the company last week, and she alleges that her firing stems from her union support.
Sharon Gillman, 20, was fired on April 9 from her job at the Starbucks at 2901 Sherman Oaks Place, just off of Wake Forest Road, following an incident that happened two months earlier.
On Feb. 13, while Gillman was washing dishes, she said a hose snapped off of the sink. Gillman said she radioed a shift supervisor who helped her reattach the hose to the wall. But she said the sink was too broken to use for the rest of the night and ultimately needed to be repaired.
