Brewing Market Coffee employees join growing cadre of unionized baristas

BOULDER — Workers at Brewing Market Coffee last week voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining a labor union.

The vote came the same week that baristas at Starbucks 11th Avenue location in Greeley made the same choice, and represents the latest indication of a strengthening labor-organization movement in the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado, led in large part by retail, hospitality and food-service workers. 

The vote by employees at Brewing Market, a coffee seller and coffee-shop operator with locations in Boulder, Longmont and Lafayette, to link up with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 26…