The National Labor Relations Board ruled last week Starbucks illegally fired a Chicago barista who wanted to unionize. (via eaterchicago)
Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Imagesa Chicago barista who wanted to unionize. NLRB administrative Judge Geoffrey Carter also ruled Starbucks violated labor law when managers threatened workers at two cafes.
Barista Jasper Booth-Hodges began discussing labor organizing with colleagues a year prior to his August 2022 termination. The firing occurred two months after employees at 1174 E. 55th Street in Hyde Park voted to unionize, according to theThe judge also found that Starbucks illegally threatened employees last year in Hyde Park and at a now-shuttered cafe at 1070 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue in Edgewater.
The NLRB ruled Starbucks must offer to reinstate the Hyde Park barista to his former position or a “substantially equivalent” one and compensate him for any loss of earnings that stemmed from his firing. Its ruling comes two months after another NLRB judge found that Starbucks amid a union drive at cafes in Buffalo, New York, and committed “egregious and widespread misconduct demonstrating a general disregard for the ‘employees’ fundamental rights.”a behavioral pattern on the coffee giant's part. Starbucks emerged as a fertile ground for labor organizing as the COVID-19 pandemic roiled the hospitality industry and thrust cafe workers into the front lines of engaging with a deeply divided public.
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