Starbucks Retaliated Against Pro-Union Staff, NLRB Alleges
A Starbucks coffee shop in San Francisco.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Starbucks Corp. violated federal labor law by putting union supporters under surveillance and retaliating against them, U.S. labor board prosecutors alleged in a complaint filed on Tuesday.
The coffee chain “has been interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees” that have sought to exercise their rights, the National Labor Relations Board’s Phoenix regional director wrote in the filing on behalf of the agency’s general counsel. Starbucks denied the allegations.