Workers at nine Starbucks locations in Arizona have formed unions via elections run by the National Labor Relations Board.
A new decision by the independent federal agency against the coffee conglomerate resets the line on what the board considers an unlawful threat to workers thinking of organizing.
The board decision says going forward, when predicting negative effects of unionizing beyond employer control, Starbucks and other companies must use objective facts that support why those consequences are likely.
Without a basis in fact, the board wrote that predictions of negative consequences amount to threats of retaliation by employers on employees seeking to unionize.
Board members in favor of the decision wrote that they’re overruling another decades-old board decision that made lawful most things employers say about the effect of unionizing.
Starbucks did not comment.
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