Starbucks Executed Illegal Anti-Union Campaign, Labor Board Says

Starbucks Corp. committed extensive labor law violations to stymie worker organizing in western New York at the start of a unionization wave that’s since spread across the coffee chain nationwide, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.

The scope and severity of Starbucks’ labor law violations justified enhanced remedies against the company—including an order to bargain with Starbucks Workers United at a store where workers had voted against union representation, the NLRB held late Friday.

The decision saying that Starbucks showed a “general disregard for its employees’ fundamental statutory rights” at the start of its workers’ public unionizing push comes amid ...