Starbucks on Aug. 15, accused National Labor Relations Board officials of allegedly engaging in misconduct during a unionization vote at a location in the Kansas City area and has asked the labor board to suspend all mail-in ballot union elections nationwide.
The Seattle coffee chain sent a letter to the chairman and general counsel of the NLRB saying that the board’s officials not only acted inappropriately at the Kansas City location, but in other regional union elections as well, after an NLRB employee approached the company as a whistleblower.
The NLRB officials in question had “engaged in highly improper, systemic misconduct involving Starbucks and Workers United,” wrote Starbucks’ general counsel in a letter to the NLRB.
Starbucks has said that NLRB officials had allegedly coordinated with union officials to set up in-person voting at the labor board’s offices for mail-in ballot elections.
NLRB personnel are supposed to fairly arbitrate between the unions organizing the baristas and Starbucks management.
Starbucks said it was disappointed and concerned that the Biden administration excluded it from a White House meeting in May, which included union representatives.
The company is now demanding that all future elections be held in person while the allegations are investigated and a pause is put on all scheduled mail-in elections at its U.S. locations.
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