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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
David Roeder

Workers at two Edgewater Starbucks stores vote to unionize — first in Chicago for coffee giant

A Starbucks location at 155 S Wabash Ave., pictured in January. Workers at two other shops in Edgewater have voted to unionize. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Workers at two Starbucks locations in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood voted Wednesday to join a union, the first in the city to do so in a national campaign targeting the coffee chain, labor organizers said.

The stores are at 5964 N. Ridge Ave. and 1070 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union, said employees at each store voted to join its ranks. They are the first Starbucks locations within Chicago to hold a union election, a process supervised by the National Labor Relations Board.

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