US Labor Board Accuses Starbucks of Retaliatory Firings

Rachel Ybarra (L) and Justin Ferguson, two members of the union organizing committee, outside their Starbucks in Seattle on Dec. 21, 2021. Amanda Snyder/Seattle Times/TNS

By Josh Eidelson From Bloomberg News

Starbucks Corp. violated federal law by firing, threatening, and carrying out surveillance on union activists in New York, U.S. labor board prosecutors alleged in a complaint.