The idea of unionizing when you work for a national coffee shop has always seemed silly. As some other comments point out, local shops usually treat employees better, and the way the labor market is right now means that employees are valuable and have the ability to work somewhere else if they aren't paid or treated correctly. Introducing the bureaucratic nightmare that comes from archaic institutions like unions, which are only necessary or valuable anymore for certain limited sectors of the economy, is like putting a band-aid on an amputation. If you don't like your job, quit and find another one. If workers actually did this, corporate businesses will actually feel it where it hurts.

This post is a good example of the divide in what issues people choose to give a shit about between Chittenden County residents and everyone else in the rest of the State.