Even though more than 500 Starbucks
shops had unionized by the end of 2024, it seems that the company’s management
did not respect the new union very much. Unfortunately for the company, one implication
that can be drawn is that the company’s management didn’t respect federal labor
law very much too. For in not respecting its union enough to negotiate it on
reducing employee work hours, the company violated federal law. The “smoking
gun,” I submit, was that the management used dissimulation to respond to the
government, rather than address the complaint directly.
The full essay is at "Starbucks Bucks Its Workers' Labor Union."
