Starbucks Loses Labor Board Appeal Over Union’s Methods (1)

March 16, 2022, 7:02 PM UTCUpdated: March 16, 2022, 9:09 PM UTC

The National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Starbucks Corp. over the size of proposed bargaining units at half a dozen U.S. stores.

The coffee purveyor had asked the NLRB to review regional directors’ rulings that allowed Starbucks Workers United to organize store by store, instead of at the regional level.

The company had argued it was barred from submitting evidence to support its position against single-store bargaining units. But the board said in a one-sentence decision that Starbucks had raised “no substantial issues warranting review.”

The decision leaves Starbucks with few legal options to slow the ...

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