Intelligentsia’s five cafes in Chicago have become the third coffee chain in the region, following Colectivo and Starbucks, to have employees who have organized with a union.
Employees at the Intelligentsia locations voted to affiliate with Local 1220 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The decision applies to about 27 workers at the stores. But a count of mailed ballots supervised Monday by the National Labor Relations Board showed most employees did not vote.
