Following an earlier National Labor Relations Board decision, workers at Ithaca Coffee Company have been emboldened in their efforts to unionize. Currently, workers at Ithaca Coffee Company have called for a boycott of the Triphammer location of the small, local coffee chain. The effort is being led by William Westlake, an ILR student who formerly worked for Ithaca Coffee Company at their Gateway Commons location. Following the unionization effort of Spot Coffee in Buffalo, NY, the effort to unionize Ithaca Coffee Company shows a trend of unionization efforts amongst small coffee chains in upstate New York.
See "Students and former workers urge boycott of Ithaca Coffee Company over unionizing attempt", Edwin J. Viera, Ithaca Times, October 25, 2019