StarbucksAccording to the company, it plans to bargain in good faith in negotiations with its workers in Buffalo’s Elmwood, New York store. The announcement was made Monday after employees voted in favor of forming the first U.S. union.

Rossann Williams from Starbucks EVP North America wrote that the company has not lost its conviction about the need for a union of “us as partners”. However, the company will honor the legal process.

This means that we will negotiate in good faith and with the union representing partners in one Buffalo store which voted for union representation. Williams expressed hope that the union representatives would also show mutual good faith and respect for our partners.

Elmwood workers were interviewed earlier in the month. location voted in favor of unionizingIt was the first time that company has been publicly traded since 1980. The results of the second vote in favor of Starbucks at the nearby café were in the company’s favor. However, the results for the third did not come out that day as both sides challenged the total. The union was officially established last week. challenged the resultsAt the two stores

The national push to unify is growing. Two Boston cafés host baristas filed for union elections late last week. There are more stores opening in Arizona, including Mesa and Buffalo, that want to join Starbucks Workers United. This branch is part of Service Employees International Union. If more coffee shops are open, workers will have greater bargaining power with Starbucks..Both sides don’t have to sign a contract.

Starbucks CEO Kevin JohnsonRecently, CNBC interviewed the author Jim CramerThat he anticipates a handful of additional stores to unionize.

Starbucks management has strongly opposed the union push in general. The company sent employees to places in Mesa and Buffalo that organizers called “union busting.” Starbucks denied all allegations that it attempted to intimidate workers. Starbucks has stated that it believed the entire Buffalo market, which includes 20 locations, should have the right to vote since the start of the process.