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NLRB Orders Starbucks to Reopen Two Closed Ithaca Locations
CornellSun ^ | 9/14/24 | Kate Sanders

Posted on 09/14/2024 1:51:14 PM PDT by CFW

National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Geoffrey Carter ordered Starbucks to reopen “within a reasonable period of time” two Ithaca locations that closed after employees formed a union, stating that its move to “chill unionism” violated the National Labor Relations Act.

Carter ruled on Friday that the May 2023 permanent closures of the Ithaca Commons and Meadow Street Starbucks locations and failure to bargain with the union were unlawful, as the board found the stores were closed for “antiunion reasons” and in an effort to quell unionizations elsewhere.

The NLRB similarly ordered on July 6, 2023, that the third Ithaca Starbucks location on College Avenue — which closed on June 10, 2022 — must reopen “immediately.” The store remains closed.

Discussions surrounding the Ithaca Commons and Meadow Street store closures occurred only a few months after the stores unionized. On April 8, 2022, all three Ithaca stores voted to unionize. In the summer of 2022, Starbucks regional leadership began weighing the closure of the Meadow Street and Ithaca Commons locations, citing high turnover and low profitability metrics, according to the NLRB ruling.

(Excerpt) Read more at cornellsun.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: businesses; ithaca; newyork; nlrb; r; scotus; starbucks; unionization; unions
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The NLRB is going to have to be smacked down by SCOTUS once again.

Meanwhile, the Starbucks stores should just open with one self-service kiosk which will dispense only one-size, one-flavor coffee.

1 posted on 09/14/2024 1:51:14 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

Isn’t it great when a “public servant”… Emphasis on “servant”… Orders a citizen to do anything…

We are rapidly reaching a point where obeying and complying is not an option.


2 posted on 09/14/2024 1:52:50 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: CFW

With one operating hour per day.


3 posted on 09/14/2024 1:52:53 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: CFW

Big sign out front: “No Pumpkin Spice!!!”


4 posted on 09/14/2024 1:53:16 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)
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To: mrmeyer

Week


5 posted on 09/14/2024 1:53:56 PM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: NFHale

We order you to run a money losing business.


6 posted on 09/14/2024 1:57:20 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: CFW

Coffee machines and their BUZZZZZZZ sound ,LOL


7 posted on 09/14/2024 1:57:41 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: CFW

They’ve been ignoring the NRLB dictate to reopen the first one that was closed for over a year now.

I would continue to ignore those jokers.


8 posted on 09/14/2024 1:57:43 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: CFW

So will the Starbucks owners continue to vote for liberals?


9 posted on 09/14/2024 1:57:49 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: CFW

Ordering businesses to open businesses more left insanity


10 posted on 09/14/2024 1:58:43 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: CFW

But that’s not tyranny at all/industrial strength sarcasm


11 posted on 09/14/2024 2:00:49 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: NFHale

just wait till kamala orders doctors and nurses to work 12 hour days


12 posted on 09/14/2024 2:02:05 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: CFW

I am not, in general, against unions. But the field must be perfectly level. This story is an example of how the field is no longer level.

Employees should be able to form a union for whatever reason. Then the employer should be able to refuse to bargain with the union (and deal with a strike) or even close the business.

Freedom should work both ways.


13 posted on 09/14/2024 2:04:09 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I think this might be up your alley.


14 posted on 09/14/2024 2:04:16 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: PeterPrinciple

Chances are Good.


15 posted on 09/14/2024 2:05:39 PM PDT by Linda Tripp (America's Best Best Friend)
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To: NFHale

“ In a mature society, ‘civil servant’ is semantically equal to ‘civil master.’”

Robert A. Heinlein


16 posted on 09/14/2024 2:06:20 PM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: bdfromlv

Many already are working 12 hour shifts.


17 posted on 09/14/2024 2:07:11 PM PDT by lula (1984)
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To: CFW

Starbucks needs to just say no. The NLRB doesn’t have that authority.


18 posted on 09/14/2024 2:09:19 PM PDT by Houmatt (Welcome to the USSA.)
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To: CFW

Starbucks should schedule these stores for remodeling, which could take quite a while.


19 posted on 09/14/2024 2:09:50 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: CFW

Huh? How does that work?

Come to the bankrupt owners house and make him go to work at gunpoint?

Galt’s Gulch here we come.

Or shoot it out.

5.56mm


20 posted on 09/14/2024 2:10:04 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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