NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Starbucks’ flagship storefront in New York City voted to unionize on Friday, becoming the first location in the city and the tenth nationwide to do so.
The Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Chelsea also includes a manufacturing plant attached to the storefront, making some of the workers at this location the first unionized Starbucks manufacturing laborers in the United States.
Three other New York City Starbucks cafes also started voting on Friday. The roastery election was held in-person rather than via mail-in ballot, so the results were released immediately, according to CNBC.
The New York City locations are the latest in a wave of Starbucks union pushes around the country that started with a store in Buffalo that voted to unionize in December.
About 160 other locations in 28 states are slated to vote in the near future, according to Vox.
There are almost 9,000 Starbucks in the country, but the unionization push has spread rapidly.
The roughly 100 workers at the Chelsea location voted 46 to 36 in favor of unionizing under Workers Unite, which is a branch of the Service Employees International Union.
The announcement came just hours after a Staten Island Amazon facility became the first in the nation to unionize.
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