Starbucks is requesting a suspension of mail-in ballots at unionization votes currently going on at its stores across America. The coffee chain is accusing National Labor Relation Board employees ...

Nearly a third of the ballots cast in the 2024 presidential election were submitted by mail, despite efforts to discourage ...

Starbucks alleges that NLRB regional staff repeatedly crossed the line of neutrality, alleging that despite ordering a mail-in election, the agency arranged for some voters to cast their ballot in ...

By rewriting labor law to deny secret-ballot elections, the NLRB further empowers certain members of the labor force looking to coerce their fellow workers.

Starbucks issued a letter to the National Labor Relations Board to suspend mail ballot elections after claiming it was tipped off that there has been misconduct in prior elections.

Current NLRB policy is that unions must show that 30% of workers have signed “cards” in favor of unionization. Then they must petition the board for a secret-ballot election.

Between October 2021 and late January of this year, 304 of the 378 elections overseen by the NLRB were conducted via mail ballot, according to a recent board decision, opens new tab.

More than 220 Starbucks cafes in the U.S. have voted to unionize, according to the NLRB. An additional 34 elections have been ordered or are in progress.

Between those ballots and the ones returned by mail so far, 271,978 ballots have been cast — roughly 5 percent of the state’s 4.8 million registered voters. Related : Important things to know ...

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