The National Labor Relations Board has accused Starbucks of breaking the law 30 times in fighting union activity at four of its coffee shops in Manhattan. The labor board?s regional office in Manhattan issued detailed charges against Starbucks on Friday after organizers from the International Workers of the World complained that the company had sought to suppress their efforts to form a union. In its complaint, the labor board said that Starbucks managers at the four locations had retaliated against workers supportive of unionizing by firing two of them, threatening to terminate others and giving several workers negative performance evaluations.
See "Board Accuses Starbucks of Trying to Block Union", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, April 2, 2007