Baristas at the Longmont Starbucks location at 17th Avenue and Hover Street have filed petitions with the National Labor Relations Board to join the Starbucks Workers United union. Workers in Longmont were among employees at 21 Starbucks coffee shops to join a nationwide unionization push in February. “Across the country management is cutting hours, writing inconsistent and unreliable schedules, and placing more and more work on fewer and fewer partners,” the workers wrote in a letter to Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan. “We ‘partners’ demand a say. We are the face of Starbucks. As employees, we deserve the same respect and dignity as […]