Starbucks committed ‘egregious’ violations in battling union, judge rules

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Starbucks committed “egregious and widespread” violations of federal labor law while trying to halt union campaigns, a judge ruled, and ordered the coffee giant to give backpay and damages to employees who launched a nationwide organizing drive.

Starbucks showed “a general disregard for the employees’ fundamental rights,” Judge Michael A. Rosas wrote in a 220-page order released Wednesday.

In resolving a massive case that combined 33 unfair labor practices charges from 21 stores in the Buffalo area, Rosas held that the company retaliated against employees affiliated with Starbucks Workers United as they began a union drive in 2021. Since then, 268 of the roughly 9,000 company-owned U.S. stores have voted to unionize, and Starbucks’s interim chief executive Howard Schultz has drawn the ire of liberal political leaders.Sen.

Starbucks, the judge said, must reopen stores it closed as union momentum swelled among workers, rescind dozens of disciplinary actions taken against Buffalo-area employees, pay “reasonable consequential damages” and offer to reinstate terminated workers to their jobs. Rosas’s order also calls for Schultz and Denise Nelson, the company’s senior vice president for U.S. operations, to read a 14-page notice that explains workers’ rights and how the company violated the law.

 

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But I thought Starbuck’s was liberal and progressive?

This is so awesome. Literally the left destroying the left in real time.

Hillary's secretary of labor pick

Did they make them drink their dark roast at meetings about the topic?

I love it! Woke Starbucks with their ultra liberal agenda gets their a$$ kicked by ultra liberal unions. 🎶🎶🎶The left eats their own. The left eats their own. Hi-ho the dario, the left eats their own. 🎶🎶🎶

They should be forced to change their name too! --In the novel, Moby Dick, Starbuck is a religious man. Sober and conservative, he relies on his Christian faith to determine his actions and interpretations of events.

Starbucks Dem owners being eaten by Dem gubamint … ha 😄

If you want to change the behavior, arrest & prosecute the executives...fining the company will just be factored into the cost of doing business

Where’s the star alliance?

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