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Starbucks employees are suing the company for defamation over its response to a union protest.
In a lawsuit filed Monday in South Carolina state court, eight Starbucks workers accused the company of falsely and maliciously portraying them as criminals, and accused the company and the manager of making false statements to the police “for the illegitimate collateral purpose of preventing plaintiffs from publicly protesting Starbucks.”
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