A nonprofit legal organization that has been seeking to remove the unions at Starbucks stores across the country has turned its attention to Philadelphia.
The National Right to Work Foundation (NRWF) filed a petition on behalf of an employee at the Starbucks on Ninth Street and South Street in Center City, seeking to decertify Workers United.
The same organization represented workers at Good Karma Cafe who filed for decertification of their union earlier this year. An election was held in September, and the union lost.
In a press release, NRWF identified the Starbucks employee as Michael Simonelli. NRWF says a majority of employees at the Ninth and South store signed the petition.
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NRWF has sought union decertification at a number of other Starbucks locations, but the effort has faced legal obstacles because of allegations of anti-union activity by Starbucks. None of the Starbucks decertification efforts have made it to an election, and several of the cases have been dismissed by the National Labor Relations Board.
The NLRB issued a board decision Thursday in one of those cases, in Buffalo.
In that case, a worker represented by the NRWF filed a decertification petition in April. A regional director for NLRB dismissed the petition because of pending unfair labor practices allegations against Starbucks. Starbucks and NRWF sought a review of the case, but the board denied their request in Thursday’s decision.
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