Starbucks Union Hit With Second New York Decertification Bid (2)

Workers at a Starbucks Corp. cafe in Rochester, N.Y., have asked the National Labor Relations Board to remove Starbucks Workers United as their labor union.

The decertification petition, filed Monday, is the second bid in the last two weeks to oust the union from a Starbucks location. The first came late last month from a cafe in Buffalo, the geographic origin of the unionization campaign that has spread to over 300 Starbucks stores in the last 18 months.

Workers at the store on Mount Hope Avenue near the University of Rochester initially voted 13-11 to be represented by Starbucks ...