Board Overturns ALJ Ruling That Starbucks Threatened a Worker
Starbucks NLRB board majority reversed an ALJ ruling and dismissed a complaint alleging the company unlawfully threatened employees over borrowing shifts across unionized and nonunion stores. After launching Shift Marketplace in 2022 without union-based borrowing limits, an employee continued borrowing shifts at a Green Lake store until told she could not after her home store unionized, prompting the dispute.