Starbucks Loses Labor Board Bid to Remove Union From Café (1)

Starbucks Corp. lost its attempt to persuade the National Labor Relations Board to hold a vote on a barista’s petition to eject the Starbucks Workers United union from representing workers at a café in Portland, Ore.

Starbucks’ request for the board to reconsider a regional director’s dismissal of barista Alexandra Wood’s decertification petition raised “no substantial issues warranting review,” a divided NLRB panel said in a one-sentence order Thursday.

Republican NLRB member Marvin Kaplan dissented.

The decision marks the 13th time the NLRB has declined to review an RD’s dismissal of a petition to oust Starbucks Workers United, according to ...