This week, the Starbucks union SBWorkers United passed a new milestone: 200 stores are now unionized. That was on July 22. On July 26, Starbucks reached its 201st store to be unionized in Long Island, NY — just under 8 months since the first store unionized in Buffalo, NY, in December of last year.

But it hasn’t been celebrations for the union leaders. Ahead of the union elections in a Scottsboro, Ala., store, two union leaders were fired, leading to questions of union-busting from SBWorkers United. 

But that’s not the end. There have been over 250 labor violation complaints against Starbucks brought up by SB Workers United and the National Labor Relations Board and two against SBWorkers United by Starbucks.

This week, a small independent restaurant in Los Angeles voted to unionize. What does the larger unionization movement look like? 

NRN senior editor Joanna Fantozzi has more on this story.

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