Starbucks Says NLRB Officials Aided Union Effort in Elections

Starbucks Corp., facing a growing union push across its cafes, is appealing to the National Labor Relations Board, claiming that government employees interfered with and influenced election results in certain stores.

The coffee company said in a letter to the labor board that NLRB personnel coordinated secretly with Workers United union agents to arrange for in-person voting during mail-in elections. The letter also says that NLRB officials gave union agents real-time, confidential vote counts that allowed them to then target certain Starbucks staff who hadn’t yet cast a ballot, thus affecting election results.

“In light of these types of ...