Starbucks Rerun Union Election Ordered at High-Profile Shop (2)

Starbucks Corp. workers at a Kansas store that’s become the focus of a congressional probe into the National Labor Relations Board’s objectivity will vote in a rerun union election, despite a seemingly contradictory order in a related administrative case.

Starbucks Workers United’s win at an Overland Park, Kan., cafe must be thrown out because staffers in the agency’s St. Louis region communicated with the union about special voting arrangements for workers who didn’t get mail ballots, but failed to keep the coffee giant in the loop, an NLRB regional director ruled Wednesday.

That disparity in communications “undermines the Region’s appearance ...