SAG-AFTRA and the WGA East say they’re “deeply distressed” by a federal judge’s ruling that would allow Starbucks to subpoena a wide range of communications between workers seeking to unionize and journalists reporting on their organizing efforts
to subpoena a wide range of communications between workers seeking to unionize and journalists reporting on their organizing efforts.
Last month, U.S. District Court Judge John Sinatra Jr., who was appointed to the federal bench by former President Donald Trump, issued a highly unusual decision ordering the union attempting to organize Starbucks employees in Buffalo, NY, to turn over emails and texts between the workers and “any digital, print, radio, TV, internet-based or other media outlet” regarding their organizing campaign.
“There are two fundamental issues at stake here,” SAG-AFTRA and the WGA East said in a joint statement. “One, the ability of working people to communicate openly and freely about their struggles, which includes talking with journalists without fear of being surveilled by their employers or being retaliated against.
“Allowing employers to subpoena communications between journalists and working people who seek a voice on the job, who exercise their right to engage in collective action, will inevitably chill the rights of both the journalists and the workers. Make no mistake, employers that subpoena these communications are not neutral truth-seekers. They are seeking ammunition to fight their employees’ efforts to organize.
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