French Truck coffee shop on Chartres Street votes to unionize

French Truck coffee shop on Chartres Street votes to unionize

The workers of the French Truck coffee shop on Chartres Street have formed a union, voting 8-0 in a federal union election held last Wednesday.  “We have done something pretty awesome here,” Mat Ricciardo, one of the French Truck baristas and organizers, told Verite.  The vote makes the French Truck location the third New Orleans coffee shop to unionize in about the last 15 months, following two Starbucks locations last year and earlier this yea…