Employees at three Starbucks stores in the Buffalo metropolitan area of New York have voted to unionize after a ballot count on March 9, bringing the total number of unionized stores to six. Labor activists in at least two dozen states have been leading the charge to unionize. The workers will join Starbucks Workers United following a months-long campaign, marked by legal wrangling and workers’ accusations of intimidation by management within the nation’s largest coffee chain. The votes were close, with store employees in Cheektowaga, Amherst, and Depew winning by a narrow margin in favor of unionizing, according to the National Labor Relations Board. The tally was 8–7 in Cheektowaga, 15–12 in Amherst, and 15–12 in Depew. Although the Starbucks employees at those locations had cast their votes weeks ago, their ballots were temporarily impounded on Feb. 23, after Starbucks filed a request for review with the NLRB. The union …