The efforts to unionize Starbucks workers have been going on for years, with tensions between pro-union groups and the national coffee chain remaining high.
Starbucks has been involved in litigation over a handful of pro-union employees who were fired by the company, and Starbucks was ordered by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to re-hire those workers. However, Starbucks has fought the decision, taking it all the way to the Supreme Court after an unfavorable ruling from the 6th Circuit.
The nation’s highest court has decided to take the case.
The justices took up a Starbucks appeal of a lower court’s ruling that found that the company likely discouraged other employees from exercising their rights under U.S. labor law by firing the Memphis workers in 2022. This is the first case to reach the Supreme Court involving an ongoing nationwide campaign to unionize Starbucks…
