Starbucks violated federal labor law when it increased wages and offered new perks and benefits only to non-union employees, a National Labor Relations Board judge found Thursday.

The decision is the latest in a series of NLRB rulings finding that Starbucks has violated labor law in its efforts to stop unions from forming in its coffee shops.

“The issue at the heart of this case is whether, under current Board law, [Starbucks] was entitled to explicitly reward employees,” for not participating in union activity, “while falsely telling its workers that the federal labor law forced it to take this action,” wrote administrative law judge Mara-Louise Anzalone. “It was not.”

  • Flying Squid
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    11 year ago

    That’s why I have no problem believing Epstein killed himself. He knew what he was facing and what he had lost.

    • eric
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      61 year ago

      It wouldn’t be hard to believe if he didn’t have broken neck bones. People don’t break their neck vertebrae when purposefully hanging themselves, let alone multiple, unless they fall a great distance, which Epstein did not. That’s what has always made me suspicious of the official cause of death.