5 Starbucks shops in Ontario ratify first collective agreements

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 11, 2025 4:11 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

The United Steelworkers national says workers astatine 5 Starbucks locations successful Ontario person ratified their archetypal corporate agreements.

The national says the union-led contracts are a important milestone successful the propulsion for corporate bargaining astatine the java giant.

Locations see shops successful Ajax, Kitchener-Waterloo and Toronto.

The institution did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Union drives astatine Starbucks successful Canada person had a bumpy road, including the institution closing its lone unionized store successful Vancouver successful 2023.

The United Steelworkers Local 2009 made a ailment connected that move, arsenic good arsenic for institution threats against an worker for her unionization enactment astatine a store successful Langley, B.C.

In February, the B.C. Labour Relations Board recovered the institution had morganatic reasons to unopen down the Vancouver determination but recovered Starbucks wrongfully made "threats of adverse consequences" against the union-supporting employee.

In the U.S., a unionization propulsion by Starbucks Workers United has grown from its archetypal palmy thrust successful Buffalo, N.Y., successful 2021 to present representing immoderate 570 stores and 11,000 workers.