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.
July 07, 2025
The second half of the year could be consequential for labor law practitioners as courts consider challenges to National Labor Relations Board rulings easing bargaining orders and limiting how employers can respond to union election campaigns. Here, Law360 looks at these and other cases to watch in the second half.
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.