Starbucks workers fired over union campaign must be reinstated – US judge

Seven Starbucks employees were wrongly sacked, a judge said (Joshua Bessex/AP)

A US judge has ordered Starbucks to reinstate seven sacked employees, reopen a store and stop infringing on workers’ rights after finding the company violated labour laws “hundreds of times” during a unionisation campaign in Buffalo, New York.

The decision issued by Administrative Law Judge Michael Rosas, of the National Labour Relations Board, requires Starbucks to post a 13-page notice listing its labour violations and workers’ rights in all US stores.