(Bloomberg) -- Starbucks Corp. is asking the U.S. government to quash elections underway in New York that could expand the fledgling labor foothold among its corporate-run U.S. locations.
In a Monday filing, the coffee chain asked the National Labor Relations Board to overturn an acting regional director's ruling ordering unionization votes at three restaurants in the Buffalo region. The company argued the union, Workers United, was “gaming the system” by trying to organize the region one store at a time based on where it had the most support.
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The regional official ruled last month that the company hadn't presented sufficient evidence to overcome the agency's usual presumption that the employees of a single worksite constitute an appropriate voter pool for a union election.
“The union opposes this latest attempt by the company to raise the same tired issue, and we are confident the NLRB in Washington will treat it as such,” Workers United's president Lynne Fox said via email Tuesday. A Starbucks spokesperson did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
Ballots in the election were mailed out Monday and are due back by Feb. 22.
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