Workers at the La Colombe Coffee Roasters Farragut location in Washington, DC yesterday announced plans to unionize with UFCW Local 400. This is the second cafe in the District to file to unionize after workers at the La Colombe Chinatown announced a union effort last week. The announcement followed shortly after more than 100 Starbucks locations staged a one-day strike last week as part of a nationwide push to unionize the coffee chain. Union organizing efforts are also sweeping through the DMV region, where in the last few months workers at Books-A-Million, MOM’s Organic Market, Union Kitchen, Politics and Prose, and Zen Leaf dispensary have all unionized, announced plans to unionize, or ratified their first union contracts. Read more here. Comments are closed.
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