Starbucks launches “surprise and fear” campaign against workers, union claims | Workers’ Rights News

The union won a major Starbucks vote in Buffalo, New York, United States last week. He is now urging the National Labor Relations Committee to reject the results of a mere vote by unions elsewhere.

The union, which won a major vote at a Starbucks Corp. headquarters in Buffalo, NY, last week, is trying to cancel a failed vote at another store.

The Working Group, Workers United, called on the National Labor Relations Committee to reject the results of a failed union vote on Thursday night, saying Starbucks had launched a “shock and horror” campaign to intimidate workers. He filed the same complaint for a store whose election results are still in doubt.

“The psychological damage to workers cannot be overstated, as dozens of executives have had to deal with frantic propaganda against the union,” the union wrote in the complaint.

A spokesperson for Starbucks quoted a statement on Dec. 9, where the company said the results were preliminary “as the NLRB process progressed without any immediate change in our partner relationship.”

The complaints came on the same day that the labor committee secured the union victory at a third store near Buffalo, demanding that they start negotiating with Starbucks employees.

The union lost mail-order votes from a nearby Buffalo store to go 12-8 against unionization, but the union’s attorney said last week that some of the votes were unaccounted for. The results of the other store where the union filed the complaint are pending the outcome of the voter selection appeals, but the votes counted there were in favor of the union.

Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, is trying to spread its place among thousands of US-run Starbucks restaurants after winning last week. The union filed a lawsuit in August against the union’s three restaurants in Buffalo County.

The Labor Committee has the power to invalidate the election results in response to conduct that may have changed the outcome and prevented workers from freely deciding whether or not to unionize. The challenges of the election results are examined by officials of the regional labor committee, whose appeals can be appealed to members of the Washington Council.

If the Board of Trustees certifies that the union is a winner in one or more elections, Starbucks will be legally required to bargain collectively with employees of any of the union’s dominant outlets. However, employers in this situation have sometimes refused to negotiate until the first agency has the opportunity to oppose it in federal court.