Starbucks violated labor law last summer when it fired a barista who helped organize a union at his Hyde Park coffee shop, a judge for the National Labor Relations Board ruled.
, weeks after the incident in which Carter found Starbucks had illegally threatened workers there.
In a statement, Starbucks spokesperson Andrew Trull said that company policy “strictly prohibits any retaliatory behavior directed toward partners who are interested in a union.” Starbucks has created a “robust training program to further management adherence to the complex patchwork of labor and employment law,” Trull said.
Starbucks can appeal the judge’s findings; Trull said the company was exploring options related to potential appeals., Booth-Hodges acknowledged he had sometimes been late to work — the reason Starbucks gave for his termination — but maintained he had been targeted by the company for his union activity.“They had one thing on me, and it was that I was a full-time student and overslept sometimes, and they used it to get rid of me,” Booth-Hodges said at the time.
Carter ruled Tuesday that Starbucks must cease and desist from threatening employees at the Hyde Park and Bryn Mawr stores and post a notice at each store informing workers of their rights under federal labor law, though the company closed the latter store last year. At the Hyde Park store, Starbucks must hold a meeting during which a manager will read the notice aloud to employees.
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