January 30, 2026
Starbucks can't challenge a new restriction on employer speech that the National Labor Relations Board set out in a decision knocking the company's response to a Seattle union drive because the board only applied its rule going forward, the agency argued in a Ninth Circuit brief.
May 28, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board "thumb[ed] its nose" at employers' speech rights by ruling that Starbucks threatened workers and using the case to reverse precedent letting employers opine that a union would come between them and workers, the company told the Ninth Circuit.