“It also repeatedly sent high-ranking staff to stores “in order to more closely supervise, monitor, or create the impression that employees’ union activities are under surveillance,” he said.”
An NLRB judge found Starbucks committed “egregious and widespread” violations in Buffalo and Rochester, in a decision running past 200 pages. Six illegal firings, interrogations, threats and gag rules on talking about pay. Starbucks calls the remedies “inappropriate” and wants another round of review. About 270 of its 9,000 US stores unionised anyway. Every month of appeals is another month without a contract, and that is the strategy.