CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Starbucks has responded to local employees’ complaints that the company is closing an Edgewater location - because its workers decided to unionize.
Starbucks said at the end of this month, it is closing its shop located at Bryn Mawr and Winthrop because of “ongoing safety issues impacting customers” and employees.
The employees at that location voted several months ago to join the Workers United Union.
A statement from the union said Starbucks store closures “are apparent retaliation against union workers.”
The union said Starbucks may say they’re closing the store, because of safety concerns, but that “workers at the store have been facing the same problems for years without any action from the company.”
Starbucks said it is also “closing non-union stores where (the shops) are similarly challenged in providing a safe environment.”
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