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Starbucks Corp. is asking the US labor board to overturn a ruling allowing store-by-store unionization in Arizona, where ballots were already mailed to employees last week.
In a Monday filing with the National Labor Relations Board, the coffee chain sought to overturn a regional director’s ruling that deemed the employees of a single store in Mesa an appropriate potential bargaining unit. As it has in similar disputes across the country, the company argued that any election should include a larger group of workers in the region, meaning the union would need many more votes to prevail. In the Jan. 7 Arizona ruling, the regional director found there was insufficient reason to depart from the agency’s standard position that the employees of a single worksite constitute an appropriate voter pool for a union election.