More than four years since it became the very first Starbucks in Oregon to join a union, Eugene’s store at 2830 Willamette St. is among several hundred shutting down this week.
In April 2022, workers with the South Eugene Starbucks cheered when the unanimous vote to join Workers United was livestreamed through a National Labor Relations Board meeting.
Moments after the vote, barista Jake LaMourie told KLCC that the very next step would be negotiating a contract with the Starbucks Corporation, which he estimated would take a year or longer…