A Liberal Lives In Wisconsin

     Today is a historic day for American labor. Less than three years after employees at Starbucks locations in Buffalo, New York, became the first in the nation to vote to unionize, the location at Bellingham, Washington, has become the 500th to be unionized.       Starbucks Workers United now represents some 12,000 employees in 43 states. SBWU only recently celebrated the 10,000 employee mark, and nearly 2,000 more have been added in just a few weeks. This is just the beginning. We need to unionize Starbucks locations in every state around the country. We need to push the number of unionized employees to 19,000, which represents five percent of all Starbucks employees nationwide. We need to win elections at 1,000 locations nationwide. After that, we need to push until every possible Starbucks employee wins a fair wage and comfortable living around the world.      This is an opportunity to remind all folks who belong to a union or support the right to organize that one of the key rea