What began as a single election at the Elmwood Avenue Starbucks store in Buffalo, New York, in late 2021, has now grown to three hundred.

Starbucks Workers United, an affiliate of SEIU, won its most recent victory at the store at 7th and K streets in downtown Sacramento. The result of unionizing came after an eleven-to-two vote.

“I am overjoyed that despite Starbucks using every dirty trick to deter us, we were able to become true partners in the company,” said Maizie Jensen, a barista at the Sacramento store.

The most recent Starbucks union victory comes after nearly a year-and-a-half of a unionization wave. The triumph at the Downtown Sacramento store comes shortly after another Starbucks in Northern California voted overwhelmingly to unionize. In a vote of eight to four, workers at a Pleasanton Starbucks joined the movement.

“We’re so excited that with our union, we now have a seat at the table in our workplace decisions,” expressed Elise Lester. “Whether you work at a Starbucks cafe or another retail store, we encourage you to join us in trying to create more workplaces by and for the workers.”

The Sacramento and Pleasanton Starbucks locations are the latest to gain union representation among the 9,000 company-owned stores in the United States, as workers at the coffee chain throughout the state and country ramp up efforts to contend with what they say are unfair working conditions and practices. Labor organizers say the National Labor Relations Board has issued over eighty official complaints against Starbucks.

“The reason more stores are not unionized is because Starbucks has developed a very clear method of union busting,” Lester countered to the propaganda put out by Starbucks management. “7500 workers is not a subset. Three hundred stores are not a subset, and 300 communities like Pleasanton are not a subset of Starbucks, and even at our store alone, eight out of twelve partners is not a subset.”