Chief Executive Howard Schultz and other Starbucks Corp. higher-ups reportedly ran afoul of labor law last year when they met with employees.
Chief Executive Howard Schultz and other Starbucks Corp. higher-ups reportedly ran afoul of labor law last year when they met with employees in an effort to gather information about unionization support and work-related grievances, a labor official says.
The complaint, obtained by HuffPo, alleged that from April through August of last year, executives held “at least 100 in-person ‘collaboration’ or ‘co-creation’ sessions with employees around the country.” During those meetings officials at the coffee chain “promised to promptly remedy those grievances by granting employees new or improved benefits.”
The chain then “failed and refused” to rehire 33 of the 73 employees who worked at those stores. It then gave raises and new benefits to 40 rehires and others hired at those stores — a move the complaint alleged was retaliation for union-related activity. The National Labor Relations Board did not immediately respond to a request for more information. Shares of Starbucks were up 1.5% on Friday.
“We call on the members of HELP to vote to subpoena Howard and hold him accountable for the vicious anti union campaign he’s overseen for the last year,” Starbucks Workers United said on Friday.Earlier this week, a labor board administrative law judge found that Starbucks broke the law “hundreds of times” in its efforts to dissuade employees from unionizing.
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