Starbucks Asked a COVID-Positive Employee to Work, Then Fired Him for Tweeting About It

Feb 8 2023 by VICE News

 

Starbucks fired a pro-union barista for “violating” the company’s social media policy, after he tweeted that he had been asked to come to work even after testing positive for COVID-19.

But in a filing last week, the National Labor Relations Board said Ben Scott had been fired illegally, in retaliation for attempting to organize his coworkers and for publicly discussing an issue of workplace safety. 

And in addition to saying the store retaliated against Scott, the NLRB charged that a...

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