Waterloo Starbucks is first in Ontario to unionize
Posted May 5, 2023 05:54:07 AM.
The Starbucks at Waterloo Town Square is the first in the province to vote to unionize.
Workers voted Thursday to join the United Steelworkers Union, District 6.
A statement from the union does not specify how many workers voted in favour, but describes it as a “wide margin.”
Neither does the statement outline what labour or wage concerns the workers in Waterloo have.
Darlene Jalbert, the USW District 6 Organizing Co-ordinator, calls it a history making vote, adding the “employees took a bold first step in improving their workplace and they won!”
The USW also represents Starbucks in Vancouver, Victoria, and Langley, in British Columbia, as well as in Calgary and Edmonton.
