Starbucks Commits Rash of Labor Law Violations, NLRB Judge Says

Starbucks Corp. committed a slew of unfair labor practices at a pair of Northern California stores where workers organized but didn’t elect union representation, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.

The coffee chain violated federal labor law in about a dozen different ways, from disciplining and denying work opportunities to an employee because of her union activities to instructing a worker against talking about the union, Administrative Law Judge Eleanor Laws said in her Friday decision.

With the ruling, Starbucks has been found to have committed unfair labor practices in 34 of the 36 cases decided by ALJs ...