Workers at Chicago-based specialty coffee company Intelligentsia Coffee voted to unionize Monday, the latest in a string of union votes at coffeehouses across the city in recent months.
The vote affects nearly 30 workers at Intelligentsia’s five Chicago cafes, including two in the Loop, and one each in Lakeview East, East Ukrainian Village and Logan Square.
Brett Lyons, a business representative for Local 1220 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, said the union hopes to organize the approximately 20 employees of the company’s West Town coffee roastery later this year.
