In a complaint filed Tuesday in Phoenix, the National Labor Relations Board said Starbucks 'has been interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees' seeking to unionize.
, the Phoenix NLRB regional director formally accused Starbucks of illegally surveilling and retaliating against workers seeking to unionize.Starbucks Workers United this week also filed charges with the NLRB accusing Starbucks of slashing worker hours in a deliberate union-busting bid.
"These hours cuts are in swift response to workplace organizing campaigns at Starbucks stores around the country," the union said,"The reduction of hours has resulted in lost pay; has rendered, or will soon render, employees ineligible for benefits that have hours-worked eligibility requirements, including healthcare coverage and the Starbucks College Achievement Plan ; and has or will soon result in the constructive discharge of Starbucks employees," the complaint—which...
"In the eight years I've worked for Starbucks, I've never seen the company slash hours this severely or this widely," Sarah Pappin, a Starbucks shift supervisor in Seattle, told."While it's true we trim hours in January and February, I've never [seen] us cut hours like this in March when our business is already ramping up for the season."
"Many of my coworkers have no idea how they're going to pay rent for April," Pappin added."Some of my core that were previously getting scheduled 20-plus hours a week are being scheduled less than 10 now." Joseph Thompson, a barista at a Santa Cruz, California Starbucks, said in a statement that"as a full-time, low-income college student, I rely on at least 20 hours a week for benefits and paying bills. Living paycheck to paycheck is already hard, but now that Starbucks is cutting hours across the board and targeting union leaders, [it] just further emphasizes the need for a union."
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