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Employees at a Tampa Starbucks plan to vote to unionize

The local workers are joining a growing group of employee at the coffee shop that are looking to organize.

By Louis Llovio
| 4:30 p.m. May 2, 2024
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Tampa Bay-Lakeland

Employees at a Tampa Starbucks filed a notice this week with the National Labor Relations Board that they will vote to unionize, joining employees in eight other states in a bid to organize.

The employees work at the Seattle coffee shop giant's location on North Dale Mabry Highway and Linebaugh Avenue just outside the Carrollwood neighborhood.

A spokesperson for the group behind the push, Starbucks Workers United, says Thursday that the workers will vote in about two weeks.

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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.