Starbucks argues that the Supreme Court should raise the bar federal judges use to determine whether fired union activists should get their jobs back.
Starbucks fired seven Memphis workers in 2022. A federal judge then ordered them reinstated at the request of the National Labor Relations Board. The case will appear before the Supreme Court this week. A Starbucks challenge to the National Labor Relations Board’s reinstatement of fired baristas will go before the Supreme Court on Tuesday., who were organizing a union at their Memphis coffeehouse.
“This could have a substantial impact,” said James Cooney, a labor studies professor at Rutgers University. “If a stricter standard is adopted by the Supreme Court, it’ll be more difficult for the labor board to maintain the status quo for workers during an organizing drive. If there have been terminations of pro-union workers, those people are going to be out of work for years.
Meanwhile, pro-business groups, including the HR Policy Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have rallied in support of Starbucks’s argument that the current process for granting relief is too lenient and stacked against employers. More than 400 of the company’s 9,600 company-operated U.S. stores have voted to unionize with Starbucks Workers United since the campaign went public in 2021.
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