Why is Starbucks’ union drive speeding ahead while Amazon’s stumbles?
More than 100 of the coffee shop’s locations have unionized, while just one Amazon warehouse has managed it
In a historic win in December, baristas in Buffalo voted to make their Starbucks the first of more than 9,000 corporate-operated Starbucks in the US to unionize. Since then, 143 other Starbucks have unionized and workers at 120 other locations have petitioned for union elections.
In another historic victory, a vote count on 1 April showed that workers at an 8,300-employee Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New