ToplineStarbucks illegally fired Buffalo-area employees for their unionization efforts and must reinstate them, a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge ruled—the latest in a long saga of friction between the company and Starbucks Workers United, the union that first organized in Buffalo in 2021 and has since spread to stores across the country.FILE - This Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, file photo shows a Starbucks logo sign in the window of one of ... [+] the chain's cafes in Pittsburgh. (AP Pho ...