Workers United has filed dozens of complaints against Starbucks with the NLRB.
Starbucks claims in the filings that organizers physically blocked the entrances and exits of those stores, made threats and physically intimidated baristas who didn't support the union drive.
The complaint alleges that organizers also yelled profanity at customers and hit cars with a picket sign as they tried to enter and exit the Denver location. The complaint does not detail when that incident occurred, but workers at the Denver cafe named in the filing held a strike March 11 to protest what they called unfair working conditions.The Phoenix location mentioned in the filings is the same cafe that is at the center of the NLRB's complaints against Starbucks.
"We're doing this to protect the physical safety and emotional wellbeing of our partners and to make it very clear that the behavior we're seeing from some union organizers is not acceptable and we won't tolerate it," Rossann Williams, president of Starbucks' North American operations, wrote in a letter to employees viewed by CNBC.
"I want every partner to know we respect and honor all their rights — the right to choose a union, and the right to choose to speak for themselves," Williams added.
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