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The Supreme Court sided with the world’s largest coffee chain and raised the standard necessary for the National Labor Relations Board to seek judicial intervention to halt unfair labor practices.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Starbucks in a dispute over the firing of pro-union workers in Tennessee in 2022.
The Supreme Court overturned a lower court's decision on Thursday, directing Starbucks to hire back the seven Memphis-based workers who had been fired due to a unionisation effort. The decision makes it more difficult to immediately block alleged unfair labor practices as they are litigated in a sometimes years-long administrative process.
The Supreme Court on Thursday made it harder for the federal government to win court orders when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns in a case that stemmed from a labor dispute with Starbucks.
The court ruled in favor of Starbucks, which had terminated seven employees who led a unionization campaign in Memphis.