The campaign to unionize Starbucks Corp. stores across the country has reached a new stage, with federal labor board prosecutors heading into hearings over accusations that the coffee chain violated labor law as workers at a growing number of locations have gone on strike.
National Labor Relations Board judges will hold the first set of hearings this month on alleged unfair labor practices from the ongoing unionizing wave, the agency said. Those June hearings, which involve Starbucks stores in Arizona, California, and Florida, will be followed by proceedings in cases from five other states that will stretch through the summer and fall.
The NLRB has more than 170 open cases accusing Starbucks of anti-union threats, retaliation, surveillance, and other labor law violations since Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, began filing election petitions last August.
NLRB prosecutors have found merit in about 50 of those cases thus far, leading to eight complaints filed against the company, according to agency statistics. Starbucks North America President Rossann Williams was accused of illegally threatening employees in a massive consolidated complaint involving Buffalo-area stores.
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