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![Starbucks employees celebrate after unionization votes are counted, on December 9, 2021 in Buffalo, New York.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/12/2021_1210-starbucks-unionization-400x300.jpg)
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Celebrate Starbucks Workers’ Historic Union Victory
Workers at the Elmwood, Buffalo Starbucks location have voted overwhelmingly to form a union.
![Starbucks workers wait for the vote count by the National Labor Relations Board on December 9, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/12/2021_1209-starbucks-workers-400x300.jpg)
Buffalo Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form First-Ever Starbucks Union
Workers at the Elmwood location in Buffalo voted 19 to 8 to form a union.
![Eleven-year Starbucks barista and union-drive organizer Michelle Eisen speaks during a virtual press conference on December 1, 2021, from Buffalo, New York.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/12/1-400x300.png)
Baristas in Buffalo Are Poised to Unionize Using Starbucks’s Own PR Against It
Workers United members say their union drive may succeed tomorrow in part by turning Starbucks's own PR against it.
![A view of a Starbucks store on October 29, 2021, in Novato, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1350075017-400x300.jpg)
Starbucks Is Swarming Buffalo-Area Shops With Top Execs to Quash Union Drive
Starbucks employees in Buffalo are set to cast an official vote on unionizing by December 8.
![Starbucks sign in Starbucks coffee shop](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/2021_1109-starbucks-400x300.jpg)
Starbucks Requests Last-Minute Delay in Union Vote Set for This Week
With a union vote this week, the company’s union-busting tactics have grown ever more desperate.
![If the union succeeds in Buffalo Starbucks stores, it may only be a matter of time until the example spreads elsewhere.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/09/IMG_9177-400x300.jpg)
Workers in Buffalo May Become the First to Unionize a Starbucks Store
If the union succeeds in Buffalo Starbucks stores, it may only be a matter of time until the example spreads elsewhere.
![Minneapolis police officers in riot gear overlaid with logos from Target, Starbucks, AT&T, Facebook and Amazon](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/04/2021_0427-police-fund-400x300.jpg)
Big Corporations Strike Racial Justice Pose While Continuing to Fund Police
Nonprofit police foundations are just one way corporations have funneled money into law enforcement.
![A Bank of America branch is boarded up in downtown after protests began against the police killing of George Floyd and Sean Reed in Indianapolis.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/06/GettyImages-1216630197-400x300.jpg)
Corporations Avoid Billions in Taxes While Funding Police Foundations
Corporations should cut ties with police foundations and pay their fair share in taxes to fund community investment.
![Logo of the Starbucks is seen in New York on May 29, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/06/2020_0612-starbucks-sign-400x300.jpg)
Mounting Pressure Forces Starbucks to Roll Back Ban on Supporting BLM at Work
An internal memo had forbidden company employees from wearing apparel that supports the movement for Black Lives.
![In 2019, many Fortune 500 companies paid no taxes or had a negative tax rate.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/01/GettyImages-941378956-400x300.jpg)
Thanks to Trump, Workers Pay Higher Tax Rates Than World’s Largest Corporations
In 2019, many Fortune 500 companies paid no taxes or had a negative tax rate.