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Starbucks Just Doesn’t Care About Labor Law

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Starbucks’ complete indifference to following American labor law is pretty telling.

In a complaint issued on 25 April, NLRB prosecutors alleged that Starbucks illegally refused and failed to bargain at 144 unionized stores.

The board also requested a court injunction for immediate reinstatement of a fired Starbucks worker, Jaysin Saxton, in Augusta, Georgia. Saxton was one of the workers who testified in front of the US Senate in March 2023.

Starbucks also recently informed workers they intend to close two of the remaining Starbucks locations in Ithaca, New York, after shutting down the third location in 2022, which workers have alleged was in response to union activity. All three stores had previously unionized, though Starbucks denied the closures were related to union activity, with the union filing for an injunction in federal court to halt the closures.

Workers at Starbucks have continued actions, including strikes, to pressure the company to bargain a first union contract with Starbucks Workers United, as the union continues to file more union elections at stores. According to the union, Starbucks workers have engaged in 453 strikes so far throughout the course of the union campaign.

Starbucks Workers United has also alleged that Starbucks has not responded to or offered counter-proposals to the union in bargaining.

“Starbucks has had proposals in their hands for over seven months. Yet, the company has failed to agree, or even tentatively agree, to a single sentence in any one of our proposals, nor have they countered with a single proposal of their own,” said Michelle Eisen, a Starbucks barista from the Elmwood location in Buffalo, New York, and a national bargaining committee member. “These are not the actions of a company interested in bargaining a contract. These are the actions of a company doing everything possible to delay, and they will not succeed.”

Starbucks disagreed with the NLRB complaints on bargaining, claiming the union hasn’t confirmed future bargaining sessions and blamed delays on the union. Starbucks has disputed or disagreed with all NLRB complaints and rulings issued against it over the course of the unionization campaign at the company.

“Looking forward, we remain engaged and ready to bargain in-person with the unions certified to represent our partners according to longstanding NLRB precedent, and we continue to encourage all parties to apply current law in their approach to future bargaining efforts,” a spokesperson added.

This is language telling the NLRB go fuck itself.

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