On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board’s Buffalo regional director filed a complaint against Starbucks alleging 29 charges of unfair labor practice. The allegations included violations in excess of 200 of the National Labor Relations Act.

Starbucks Workers United has filed the complaint against Starbucks in Buffalo. This is where the organizing campaign began in August.

CNBC viewed Starbucks’ complaint. It is accused of interfering, restraining or coercing workers who are trying to organize in different ways. According to the regional office, the federal independent agency claimed that Starbucks threatened and intimidated employees by closing stores in the region, reducing workers’ compensation and imposing discriminatory policies on union supporters. It also fired and monitored workers.

High-ranking Starbucks employees made frequent visits to Buffalo, taking part in mandatory anti-union meetings. The complaint further notes that Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and other leaders had promised workers an increase of benefits if they didn’t organize. Buffalo is at the heart of the union drive. Buffalo is the home of the original store. vote yes on organizingIt was started in December by a group of people who were inspired to spread the movement across the nation.

More than 50 stores have registered to vote with Workers United to become members, while nearly 250 petitioned for votes in other parts of the country. Minimum five people have opposed organizing. Starbucks operates nearly 9,000 stores across the nation.

The NLRB region office’s complaint includes a series of allegations that the union has made against the company for months. Starbucks will be able to address the allegations.

The NLRB’s General Counsel requests the reinstatement of workers. Rossann Williams, Starbucks North Americas executive vice president, is also requested by Schultz and Rossann Williams. The meeting will be taped and distributed by the NLRB’s general counsel. A representative would then read out a notice about employees rights at the end of it.

Starbucks claims there was never any union-busting at Buffalo. Today the NLRB clarifies the matter. Starbucks Workers United released a statement saying that the complaint confirmed the depravity and extent of Starbucks’ behavior in Western New York during the last year. Starbucks workers will be held accountable by the union-busting hoarding they created for them in their struggle for freedom to organize. The Complaint exposes Howard Schultz’s anti-union war and completely discredits Starbucks’ façade of progressivism.

Starbucks didn’t immediately reply to our request for comment.

Schultz, now in his third tenure as Starbucks CEO is a strong and vocal critic of unionization. Although the company announced recent pay and training investment for employees, it said that these benefits would not be automatically transferred to unionized shops. without separate bargaining discussions.

Schultz stated that the union contract would not be able to match what Starbucks has offered during Tuesday’s earnings conference call.

Thursday’s White House meeting hosted representatives from campaigns organized at Starbucks and other companies like Amazon, bringing more attention to the union efforts of baristas. Starbucks wrote to White House asking for its own meeting, calling it “deeply concerning” as the vast majority of their customers are not attending. partners oppose being in a union.

Starbucks Workers United has brought more than 100 charges of unfair labor practice against Starbucks. while the company has filed two against the union in return. Starbucks Workers United notched a recent win as NLRB officials petitioned a federal courtsolicit the return of activists who claimed they were dismissed because of union campaigns to make sure that the company does not discriminate against them.