CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) --Unionization is brewing at a Glenview coffee shop.
Hourly workers at the Starbucks at 2760 Willow Road in Glenview have officially filed for a union representation election.
“In our store in particular, I will say that we’ve suffered a lot of the problems that a lot of Starbucks across the country have.”
Melissa Lee-Litowitz is a shift supervisor at the Glenview Starbucks.
“Those include understaffing problems,” she said. “Our facilities remain poorly managed. When they break, there’s not a quick response time to turn around and fix those.”
The location becomes the first in the city of Glenview to ask the Labor Board for a union vote.
“I hope this humanizes us,” Lee-Litowitz said. “I hope it makes people realize that we’re not just machines that make the coffee for you, we’re not just voices in a voice box. We are really people and human beings.”
The Glenview location would join Starbucks workers in Chicago and nationwide who have agreed to unionize in recent months.
“It’s important for our store, for Starbucks in general, but for honestly every workplace,” she said. “I think every worker deserves a union.”
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