Employees at a Lafayette Starbucks have filed a petition to unionize, our media partners at The Advocate report.
Workers at the location at 4300 Ambassador Caffery Parkway filed documents with the National Labor Relations Board last week for a union, the latest Starbucks location in the country to do so, the newspaper reports.
The request includes all 20 full- and part-time baristas and shift supervisors at the location. The workers are affiliated with Workers United, a Philadelphia-based labor union that represents about 86,000 workers in the U.S. and Canada, the Advocate reports.
In a letter sent to Starbucks President and CEO Howard Schultz, the organizers complained of having to work in 80-degree heat when the air-conditioner went out in the store in late May. The store has been short-staffed for some time, and the staff has been ignored by management when they asked for help covering shifts, the Advocate reports.
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