Starbucks Camp Hill store files union petition with NLRB

Camp Hill baristas put a new Starbucks union fight on the map with an NLRB petition filed June 9, turning complaints about staffing, hours and safety into a formal election test at the Shoppes at Cedar Cliff store. The case covers 20 employees at 1106 Carlisle Rd. and seeks a bargaining unit of full-time and regular part-time baristas and shift supervisors.

The petition is docketed as 05-RC-388533 and sits in NLRB Region 05 in Baltimore, Maryland. The proposed unit excludes store managers, office clericals, guards and statutory supervisors, the standard Starbucks structure that keeps the fight focused on the people making drinks, taking orders and covering the floor rushes.

For Starbucks Workers United, the Camp Hill filing fits a long-running organizing push built around the same store-level complaints workers have been raising for years. The union’s platform calls for three workers on the floor at all times, a $17 starting wage for the lowest-paid baristas, 4% annual raises, available hours going to current baristas and stronger health and safety protections.

That message still has pull in Starbucks stores because the daily issues have not gone away. Short staffing, unpredictable schedules and limited hours are the problems workers keep naming when they decide to sign cards or back an election. A filing like Camp Hill’s does not guarantee a win, but it does show that the campaign is still generating new votes in smaller markets, not only in the big first-wave cities that launched the movement.

The broader track record underscores why organizers keep filing. Starbucks Workers United says its first successful election came in Buffalo in December 2021, and it now says more than 700 stores and more than 12,000 workers are unionized. Other 2026 tallies have put the number at 699 wins covering 15,122 employees. That gap between official union messaging and outside counts is less important than the larger point: the campaign is still producing elections, and still losing some, but it has not gone away.

Pennsylvania is part of that summer map. A separate Starbucks petition was filed in Pittsburgh on May 18, 2026, suggesting the state is one of the places where the drive is still active store by store. National bargaining has also remained stuck, with formal negotiations last held in December 2024 and Starbucks saying in March 2026 that it was ready to resume in-person talks.

The Camp Hill case lands after the November 2023 Red Cup Rebellion strikes at more than 200 union stores and after the February 2024 bargaining framework that briefly raised hopes for movement. What this filing shows now is simpler: the organizing wave still has enough force to reach another café, and workers there are trying to turn local pressure into a seat at the table.