Starbucks committed “egregious and widespread” violations of federal labor law while trying to halt union campaigns, a judge ruled, and ordered the coffee giant to give backpay and damages to employees who launched a nationwide organizing drive.
Starbucks showed “a general disregard for the employees’ fundamental rights,” Judge Michael A. Rosas wrote in a 220-page order released Wednesday.
In resolving a massive case that combined 33 unfair labor practices charges from 21 stores in the Buffalo area, Rosas held that the company retaliated against employees affiliated with Starbucks Workers United as they began a union drive in 2021. Since then, 268 of the roughly 9,000 company-owned U.S. stores have voted to unionize, and Starbucks’s interim chief executive Howard Schultz has drawn the ire of liberal political leaders.Sen.
Starbucks, the judge said, must reopen stores it closed as union momentum swelled among workers, rescind dozens of disciplinary actions taken against Buffalo-area employees, pay “reasonable consequential damages” and offer to reinstate terminated workers to their jobs. Rosas’s order also calls for Schultz and Denise Nelson, the company’s senior vice president for U.S. operations, to read a 14-page notice that explains workers’ rights and how the company violated the law.
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