Employees at two Jacksonville Starbucks have voted to unionize, the first Northeast Florida stores to join a spreading labor organizing effort.

“We are so excited to have won our union election. This is only the beginning of a long journey to acquiring true accountability and democracy in our workplace,” Mason Boykin, a shift supervisor at the store at 11441 San Jose Blvd., said in an emailed announcement of results from balloting overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.

Workers at that store approved unionizing by a 10-7 vote, with Starbucks employees at 1980 San Marco Blvd. making the same decision by an 8-1 vote.

The votes continue a series of decisions by employees organizing under the Starbucks Workers United banner. A Tallahassee store became the state’s first Starbucks to unionize last week, and one Miami-area store unionized this week, for a statewide total of four.

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Nationally, 61 Starbucks have unionized, a tiny fraction of a chain that last year owned almost 9,000 outlets nationally and licensed thousands of others.

Boykin said by email that he hoped the local votes “stand as precedent that organizing the South and Florida is a possibility. Solidarity is brewing in Jacksonville.”

An affiliate of Service Employees International Union has represented employees in at least some of the newly unionized locations.

“It’s just so exciting to finally have a voice,” said Kayla Elopulos, a leader at the San Marco store. “I can’t wait to see what the future holds for my store and all the other unionized stores as well.”

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