Workers at Over 300 Starbucks Locations Have Filed to Unionize

Over 5,000 Starbucks workers have now unionized with Starbucks Workers United.

The National Labor Relations Board has taken note of the company’s union-busting efforts. The board’s Buffalo officeasking for an injunction against Starbucks to force the company to reinstate seven union organizers it fired earlier this year.

The NLRB also asked the court for a bargaining order — one of the most forcible actions it can take against an employer — to require the company to recognize and bargain with a union in one of the original stores that filed for a union, Camp Road in Buffalo. The union vote had failed in the store, but the NLRB said that “traditional Board remedies will be unable to restore ‘laboratory conditions’ to enable the NLRB to conduct a free and fair rerun election.

“This decision is an important step in holding CEO [Howard Schultz] accountable for his assault against workers exercising their fundamental right to organize,” Starbucks Workers United

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