Starbucks has lost another round in its ongoing legal fight against unionization at its stores across the country and here on Capitol Hill.
In the latest in a string of rulings against the coffee giant, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Starbucks illegally hampered a worker at its Broadway and Denny store from testifying at a board hearing.
Starbucks closed the Capitol Hill location late last year in a string of shutdowns critics say are targeting unionization efforts in the company. The location was the first shop in the company’s home city to unionize.
In its new ruiing, the NLRB agreed Starbucks violated federal labor law when it said workers subpoenaed to testify to the board could not participate without arranging coverage of their shifts and would be disciplined if their shifts went uncovered.
The ruling continues a string of decisions against the company over its responses around unionization efforts at its thousands of stores including threats the company was found to have made against workers at its Capitol Hill Roastery.
UPDATE: The Roastery will be the start of a “nationwide strike” through Sunday, Starbucks Workers United announced Thursday:
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Of course! Worst corporation in town with a lot of bad ones. Did anyone buy their fake “it’s because of crime” whine?
Starbucks is by far the skuzziest of the larger firms here in Seattle.
What’s absolutely hilarious is Schultz loves to think of himself as some sort of beloved paragon of corporate noblesse oblige.
But, as usual, it turns out Howard is a **effing moron** who is so delusional it’s laughable.
May his reputation come to rest where it belongs: in the gutter.