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A challenge by Starbucks to a recent union election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) includes a remarkable claim by the company: There is a whistleblower inside the NLRB. The individual was reportedly disturbed by misconduct within the NLRB, the independent federal labor watchdog agency, and provided Starbucks with internal agency communications to expose this.
Starbucks made the claim in a letter to the board earlier this month. The corporation alleged that the NLRB manipulated the voting in an election at a Starbucks location in Overland Park, Kansas, to ensure the Workers United union would win. Starbucks said the allegation was “voluntarily reported” by a “career NLRB professional,” whom it has not named, who was “concerned by the failure to ensure appropriate neutrality” in the election. Starbucks requested that the agency ensure that this mysterious individual, who provided the corporation with internal emails between the NLRB and the union, does not face retaliation.
“This documentation shows that Board personnel have secretly colluded with the Union to affect multiple stages of the mail-ballot election process, including the providing, returning, and counting of ballots. The purpose of this misconduct was to tip-the-scale in order to deliver the outcome sought by the Union,” Starbucks said in an August 15 letter. “The result of the misconduct was to ignore—and bypass—the actual sentiments that Starbucks partners may have...
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