Starbucks Unfairly Dinged Pierced Workers, NLRB Judge Says (1)

Starbucks Corp. violated federal labor law by disciplining workers at a unionized Florida location for wearing more than one facial piercing in response to their strike activity, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.

The coffee giant also committed an unfair labor practice by changing its facial piercing policy—by enforcing it more strictly following a September 2022 strike—without notifying the union that represents workers at the store and giving it a chance to bargain over the change, Administrative Law Judge Arthur Amchan ruled Thursday.

But Amchan dismissed other allegations against Starbucks, including that it illegally barred workers from wearing union ...