‘This is a national movement’: union drives surge at US Starbucks stores

More than 70 stores in at least 20 states have now filed for union elections since the December wins in Buffalo, New York

A union organizing drive among workers at corporate run Starbucks stores, the largest coffeehouse chain in the world, has surged in recent weeks throughout the US, organizers and workers say.

The development comes in the wake of union election victories at two of three stores in the Buffalo, New York, area that held union votes with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in December.