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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Wilfred Chan

Starbucks fired a union organizer. New York City got him rehired

man in front of Starbucks
Austin Locke was fired from Starbucks last July. Photograph: Luigi Morris/Left Voice

Austin Locke was halfway through his shift at the New York City Starbucks where he’d worked for three years when his supervisor ordered him into the back room. The store manager and the district manager were there too, and they had a piece of paper for him: he was fired.

“Are you sure want to do this?” Locke asked them repeatedly. He knew that what they were about to do was illegal.

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