Starbucks’ Ex-CEO Urges Need to Fix Missteps Amid Union Bid

Starbucks Corp.’s former Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz, who spoke to New York workers Saturday slated to vote on unionization, said the coffee chain needs to fix any missteps that have led to the latest effort by employees.

Pro-union workers won a key victory last week when the National Labor Relations Board issued a ruling allowing store-by-store unionization votes at the three sites. If a majority of eligible employees at even one of those sites votes to unionize, it would be the first such labor foothold among the chain’s thousands of corporate-run stores. The agency is slated to mail ballots to employees on Wednesday.