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Baristas at an experimental Starbucks-Amazon Go store in New York narrowly rejected union membership, the latest setback for the US labour movement.
The workers, who legally work for Starbucks Corp, requested a union election because they said the tie-up between the coffee chain and Amazon.com Inc doubled their workload with no additional pay. The vote was very close, with 13 voting to join Starbucks Workers United, and 14 voting no, according to a spokesperson for the National Labor Relations Board, which oversees union elections.
The defeat follows successful campaigns at hundreds of Starbucks cafes around the US. Amazon workers at a New York warehouse voted earlier this year to join the Amazon Labor Union, but the upstart labour group lost two subsequent contests.
Amazon and Starbucks have both fiercely fought the union campaigns.