500 Starbucks stores have now unionized across the United States

On Monday, a group of baristas in Bellingham, Washington were the latest members to join the Starbucks Workers United ranks, as the store became the 500th location to unionize since 2021.

Back then, in the relatively brief interim between Howard Schultz’s second and third terms as the company’s CEO, it was a store in Buffalo, New York that made history by becoming the first Starbucks branch to organize officially. These days, a new location unionizing is a weekly, or even daily, occurrence, with data from Unionelections.org tracking the steady trickle of successful Starbucks votes.

Even so, just 3% of Starbucks stores have now unionized.

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