Employees of an Oakland Starbucks store are the first in the city and the second in less than a month in Alameda County to seek to form a union, union officials said this week.

A notice hangs on a window inside the Starbucks Coffee location at the Cedar Cove shopping center in Oakland in January 2022. Like many businesses emerging from the pandemic, staffing shortages have been a problem at the store according to workers there who claim they are doing more work with fewer people. (Image via Chad Richards/Google)

Tuesday’s announcement pertains to a store at 1211 Embarcadero. Workers at a store in Pleasanton filed a petition in early March.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.