Starbucks Illegally Fired Union Activists, NLRB Judge Rules (2)

Starbucks Corp. violated federal labor law by firing five union activists who filmed a television news segment at a Memphis, Tenn., store when it was closed, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.

But the coffee giant legally terminated the other two workers from the group known as the “Memphis Seven,” Administrative Law Judge Paul Bogas ruled Thursday.

All seven workers were rehired as per a federal court order issued against the company last August. Starbucks challenged that order—which will dissolve once the NLRB rules in the case—at the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

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