Posted on 07/08/2023 6:31:18 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Ithaca, New York - Starbucks broke US law when it closed a unionized store in Ithaca, a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) judge ruled on Thursday.
Administrative law judge Arthur Amchan ruled that Starbucks closed its College Avenue café, located near the Cornell University campus, "in large part to discourage unionization efforts in Ithaca and elsewhere."
The coffee chain announced it was shutting down the College Avenue store just two months after all three of its locations in Ithaca voted to unionize. This year, the company said it would close the other two stores as well.
Amchan called for Starbucks to reopen the store immediately, reinstate fired workers with back pay, and post a notice about workers' rights at its cafés around the US.
You WILL reopen. You WILL pay $16 an hour!
What in the world? You can be *ordered* to open a business?
What does he mean they “illegally closed”?
Aren’t the hours of operation up to management and/or franchise owner?
That judge is over stepping his authority.
He must be owned by the union in some way.
A ‘Made’ man, if you will.
Directive 10-289.
The National Labor Relations Court has this power routinely in a case like this. When unions are getting your workers to decide to unionize and be represented by the union you, as an employer, are very limited in what you can do to discourage the workforce seeking representation. You can’t shut down branches picking union representation while keeping non-union branches open.
I don’t like it, but for fifty years at least this has been a hard and fast rule.
Got to be way way overstepping her authority
If the judge orders enough customers to buy overpriced coffee this could work.
How ‘bout it, your honor?
Two thumbs up for that reference.
Easy fix- Pay someone to torch the place , collect insurance and have it pinned on angry union workers. Win, win, win!
The pistons on the City of Evil machine continue to go smoothly up and down, without missing one Communist beat.
Deputy Chief Administrative Law Judge Amchan was appointed Deputy Chief Judge in October 2010, after serving as Associate Chief Judge in Washington, D.C. He was first appointed an NLRB judge in 1996. Before coming to the NLRB, he served as a judge for both the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission. He previously worked as an enforcement attorney at the Department of Labor, primarily in the OSHA program.
Judge Amchan received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Miami University of Ohio and his law degree from Harvard Law School. An army veteran who served with the Army Procurement Agency Vietnam in Saigon, he is the author of several books on American history.
How many of Starbucks stores in the U.S. have been unionized?
330
That actually makes sense.
Ithaca is a beautiful but radical town. Best to stay away.
I don’t drink coffee so Starbucks not making money from me.
AG Peekaboo James will be visiting Icky-tha on Thursday where she will continue her anti private property rights campaign.
Federal law requires all kinds of advanced notices
and negotiations prior to taking such action.
Sometimes even in woke idiot leftist run businesses, Atlas gotta Shrug.
(Kudos to Hartley’s #4 post.)
It is idiot decisions line this that breed such widespread disrespect for the law
I have no idea. The percentage is not an issue with the NLRB just the rights of the workers to vote themselves (and their co-workers in the same “shop”) into a union for representation.
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