Starbucks Corp.’s union filed a US labor board complaint accusing the company of negotiating in bad faith, signaling a rocky start to the two sides’ first negotiating sessions in a year.
In a Wednesday filing with the National Labor Relations Board, the Workers United union alleged that the coffee chain this week backtracked on seven items it had previously agreed to, adding the company made “punitive” proposals that the union clearly couldn’t accept. In the complaint viewed by Bloomberg, Workers United, which represents around 600 of the chain’s roughly 10,000 company-run US stores, accused Starbucks of acting “with the intent of ...
