Former Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz acted unlawfully when he told an employee: 'If you’re not happy at Starbucks, you can go work for another company,' NLRB finds.

Starbucks’ Howard Schultz, who was interim CEO at the time, broke federal labor law in 2022 by telling a California barista who raised concerns about unionization that “if you’re not happy at Starbucks,

(CNN) – The National Labor Relations Board said it found the former CEO of Starbucks in violation of a labor law. The board said Howard Schultz made an unlawful, coercive threat when he reprimanded a California barista while he was interim CEO in 2022.

Starbucks (SBUX) founder and former CEO violated labor law by telling pro-union employee to work somewhere else. Read more here.