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The nine to eight vote against unionizing makes the Lafayette store one of few to do so during a wave of union victories within the coffee giant.

If successful, the store at 4300 Ambassador Caffery Parkway would be the second in Louisiana and the third in the Gulf South to unionize this year.

The successful, 11-to-1 vote happened weeks after a former shift supervisor that led the unionization effort was fired by higher management.