September 08, 2026
The Fifth Circuit has declined to enforce the bulk of a National Labor Relations Board decision finding Starbucks unlawfully threatened workers with reduced store hours and a hiring freeze in response to a unionization campaign but said one manager unlawfully threatened workers' health and leave benefits.
March 02, 2026
A Fifth Circuit judge said on Monday that the timing of Starbucks' firing of a California barista was "pretty extreme" and that management's words about benefits "do matter" as the court weighed the coffee giant's bid to overturn two unfavorable rulings by the National Labor Relations Board.
July 17, 2025
A Starbucks manager in Kansas wasn't threatening workers when she said their benefits would be "put on the table" and "could not be guaranteed" if they unionized, Starbucks told the Fifth Circuit, asking it to set aside the National Labor Relations Board's finding that the remarks violated labor law.