Labor Board Judge Orders Starbucks to Bargain at NY Cafe (1)

Starbucks Corp. was hit with its first bargaining order under the National Labor Relations Board’s landmark Cemex doctrine after an agency judge found it committed multiple legal violations in the lead-up to an election at a New York store.

The order handed out by NLRB Administrative Law Judge Jeffrey Gardner held that Starbucks managers unlawfully interrogated, threatened, and solicited grievances from workers at one of the company’s first locations to seek unionization.

The 15 workers at a cafe in Great Neck, NY all signed authorization cards in January and February 2022, signaling they wanted to be represented by Starbucks Workers ...