Employees at four Portland Starbucks locations voted to unionize on Tuesday, according to the Oregonian. The coffee shops at Southeast Powell Boulevard and 28th Avenue, West Burnside Street and 23rd Avenue, Northeast Grand Avenue and Lloyd Boulevard, and Southwest Fifth Avenue and Oak Street inside the U.S. Bancorp Tower (also known as Big Pink) are the first Portland locations to vote to form unions, with the latter two locations getting a unanimous vote. The locations announced their intentions to unionize in March.
Following the union vote, workers at Grand and Lloyd and the Jantzen Beach Starbucks locations went on strike Wednesday morning in response to alleged corporate retaliation against
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