March 19, 2024
A Washington federal court approved a joint request from Starbucks and the National Labor Relations Board to dismiss an injunction case related to claims that the coffee chain tried to illegally quell organizing efforts with the consolidation of three Seattle stores.
October 30, 2023
A Washington federal judge granted Starbucks its request for discovery in a National Labor Relations Board injunction case seeking the rehire of workers after the coffee chain consolidated three stores in Seattle, while holding off on granting the company's bid for an evidentiary hearing.
October 26, 2023
Workers United can't intervene in National Labor Relations Board prosecutors' bid for a federal court injunction that would compel Starbucks to rehire about 33 workers in Seattle, a Washington federal judge ruled Thursday, holding that the prosecutors will adequately represent the union's interests.
October 24, 2023
A Washington federal judge told a National Labor Relations Board official that she wouldn't sanction him for making unauthorized changes to a petition for an injunction against Starbucks, but she said she might if he does something like that again.
August 01, 2023
Starbucks should not have to rehire 33 workers who lost their jobs amid a store merger in Seattle, because it did not combine the stores to thwart an organizing campaign at one of them, the company argued in Washington federal court.
July 07, 2023
Starbucks must stop interfering with workers' organizing rights and rehire employees who lost their jobs when the coffee chain illegally combined three stores in Seattle, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors said in a Washington federal court petition.