'Huge Victory for Workers': Judge Excoriates Starbucks for Union-Busting in Pittsburgh

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'Huge Victory for Workers': Judge Excoriates Starbucks for Union-Busting in Pittsburgh
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Jon Queally is managing editor of Common Dreams.

In what union members called a 'huge victory for workers,' an administrative judge with the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that coffee giant Starbucks violated federal labor law by terminating organized workers in several Pittsburgh locations, accusing the company of orchestrating a 'purge' of employees leading the unionization effort. The ruling by Judge Robert A.

Starbucks Workers United, the national union behind the push to organize the stores, said the 50-page ruling by Judge Robert A. Ringler 'exposes the ludicrous and simply implausible excuses Starbucks has used to justify their union-busting actions. It also shows just how far the company is willing to go to stop workers from organizing, and just how scared of their own workers this company is.

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