(BUFFALO, NEW YORK) - Starbucks Workers United has won its 300th election as Partners employed at the 7th & K location in Sacramento, California voted to Unionize - winning Union Representation by a vote of 11-to-2, Union Officials announced.

“I am overjoyed that despite Starbucks using every dirty trick to deter us, we were able to become true partners in the company.  We could not have done it without our Union Siblings at the (299) stores that came before us, and we are thrilled that our store can represent such an impressive milestone,” said Maizie Jensen, a Barista and Organizer at the 7th & K location.

Workers at the company’s Elmwood Avenue Store in Buffalo, New York was first Unionized Starbucks in the United States - doing so on December 9th, 2021.

Since that time, Starbucks Partners have formed more new Unions at any other U.S. company this century.

Michelle Eisen, a Buffalo Barista and Starbucks Organizer at the first store to Unionize, said: “No one thought what we were doing in Buffalo was possible or that it would end up spreading so far and wide across the country.  Starbucks Baristas are writing Labor History and I’m so proud we were able to show other Partners what we could win if we stood together.”

This dramatic rise in Unionization has risen in the face of a ruthless Union-Busting Campaign spearheaded by former CEO Howard Schultz and Chair of the Board Mellody Hobson.

More than 7,500 Workers have organized with Starbucks Workers United, despite Starbucks firing over 200 Union Leaders across the country and shuttering Union-represented stores in one of the most vicious Union-Busting Campaigns in U.S. History.

Natalie Mattera, a Barista and Organizer at the Eastlake store in Seattle, Washington - the 100th Starbucks store to Unionize, said: “Hearing the news of the three-hundredth store voting to Unionize is obviously incredibly exciting and so motivating, but at the same time, it just makes me more disappointed in the behavior Starbucks has been ceaselessly exhibiting.  My store at Eastlake in Seattle had the honor of being the one-hundredth store to vote to Unionize and I remember the indescribable feelings of camaraderie and solidarity that we were all overcome with.  I am so proud to be part of this movement, almost one year and two-hundred stores later - and now more than ever, I’m calling on Starbucks to sit down and bargain because we aren’t slowing down and have no plans to stop.”

In early March, a sweeping decision from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) sought rare remedies, including reopening a store Starbucks closed in retaliation for Union activity, reinstating seven Workers and providing back-pay for dozens of Buffalo-area Employees for the damages caused by Starbucks’ retaliatory actions.

This may have set off alarm bells for Starbucks shareholders who voted just two weeks ago to conduct an independent assessment of the Coffee Chain’s Labor practices - which highlighted the worries shareholders have about Starbucks’ behavior towards the Union under Howard Schultz’s leadership.

The NLRB has issued more than 80 official complaints against the Company, encompassing over 1,400 violations, making Starbucks one of the worst violators of Federal Labor Law in history.