Starbucks Workers Say Anti-Union Campaign Violated U.S. Law - Yahoo Finance

(Bloomberg) -- Starbucks Corp. violated federal law in its push to defeat workers’ organizing efforts, according to a labor board complaint filed by the group trying to unionize several of the coffee chain’s New York stores.

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Company management has responded to unionization efforts “by engaging in a campaign of threats, intimidation, surveillance” and other illegal activity, Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, alleged in its filing Thursday.

Starbucks has said that it complies “strictly with the laws and guidelines associated with union organizing activities.” A spokesperson did not immediately respond to an inquiry on the new complaint.

The complaint comes a week after workers at three Starbucks locations in the Buffalo, New York, region won a key victory allowing store-by-store unionization votes. If a majority of eligible workers at even one of those sites votes to unionize, it would be the first such labor foothold among the company’s thousands of corporate-run stores, underscoring the renewed influence of unions as American workers push for better pay and working conditions.

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The U.S. National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency tasked with conducting unionization elections as well as enforcing the law protecting workers from retaliation for organizing, is scheduled to mail ballots next week to employees at the Buffalo stores.

Pro-union employees have alleged that in recent weeks Starbucks deployed out-of-town managers to visit their stores and try to dissuade them from unionizing. The employees said they were pressured to attend meetings in which company representatives warned that organizing could lead to the loss of some benefits.

source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/starbucks-workers-anti-union-campaign-162608856.html

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