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   From: screwed@scotus.com   
      
   WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 justices tightened the standards for when a federal court should issue   
   an order to protect the jobs of workers during a union organizing   
   campaign.   
      
   The court unanimously rejected a rule that some courts had applied to   
   orders sought by the National Labor Relations Board in favor of a higher   
   threshold, sought by Starbucks, that must be met in most other fights over   
   court orders, or injunctions.   
      
   The NLRB had argued that the National Labor Relations Act, the law that   
   governs the agency, has for more than 75 years allowed courts to grant   
   temporary injunctions if they find requests “just and proper.” The agency   
   said the law doesn’t require it to prove other factors and was intended to   
   limit the role of the courts.   
      
   Following the decision, Starbucks said, “Consistent federal standards are   
   important in ensuring that employees know their rights and consistent   
   labor practices are upheld no matter where in the country they work and   
   live.”   
      
   But Lynne Fox, president of the union representing the workers, said   
   Starbucks should have dropped the case as part of its more conciliatory   
   attitude toward union organizing efforts. “Working people have so few   
   tools to protect and defend themselves when their employers break the law.   
   That makes today’s ruling by the Supreme Court particularly egregious,”   
   said Fox, president of Workers United.   
      
   The case began in February 2022, when Starbucks fired seven workers who   
   were trying to unionize their Tennessee store. The NLRB obtained a court   
   order forcing the company to rehire the workers while the case wound its   
   way through the agency’s administrative proceedings. Such proceedings can   
   take up to two years.   
      
   A district court judge agreed with the NLRB and issued a temporary   
   injunction ordering Starbucks to rehire the workers in August 2022. After   
   the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling, Starbucks   
   appealed to the Supreme Court.   
      
   Five of the seven workers are still employed at the Memphis store, while   
   the other two remain involved with the organizing effort, according to   
   Workers United, the union organizing Starbucks workers. The Memphis store   
   voted to unionize in June 2022.   
      
   As as the case proceeded, animosity between Workers United and Starbucks   
   began to fade. The two sides announced in February that they would restart   
   talks with the aim of reaching contract agreements this year, and they   
   held their first bargaining session in nearly a year in late April.   
      
   Workers at 437 company-owned U.S. Starbucks stores have voted to unionize   
   since late 2021, according to the NLRB, but none of those stores has   
   secured a labor agreement with Starbucks.   
      
   Starbucks said it’s pursuing its goal reaching ratified contracts for   
   those stores this year.   
      
   https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-starbucks-union-fired-workers-   
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