Unionization is when employees organize together in order to bargain with an employer. Right now, you personally have little to no leverage over your employer, so if there’s something you want you have pretty much no way of getting it beyond asking nicely or threatening to quit. When your whole store organizes in order to bargain collectively, that gives you more bargaining power over the company to ask for things like benefits, higher pay, and better treatment. If an employer can’t come to an agreement with a union, that will sometimes result in a union choosing to strike (collectively stop working) which means big losses for the company. In order for your store to unionize, employees would have to organize together (usually without the manager knowing) and present a petition to unionize. Starbucks uses union-busting techniques in order to prevent unionization because unionization is really bad for starbucks as a company because it means they can’t treat their employees like dog shit anymore LOL. Hope that helps and if anyone has any corrections/add ons feel free!