Starbucks Illegally Threatened to Deny Abortion Benefit (1)

Starbucks Corp. supervisors at a Wisconsin shop illegally threatened workers with the denial of an abortion-related travel expense benefit because of their union activity, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.

Managers threatened workers with the loss of abortion benefits in July 2022 meetings held at the store to discuss a union petition that they had filed a month earlier, Administrative Law Judge Charles Muhl said in his Tuesday decision.

The ruling is the 31st time an ALJ has held that Starbucks violated federal labor law in its efforts to repel the unionization drive. That tally includes a September ...