Starbucks workers brought a news crew to a closed coffee shop. Should they have been fired?
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Source: USA Today
Published 5:01 a.m. ET April 20, 2024 | Updated 8:41 a.m. ET April 20, 2024
WASHINGTON ? On the heels of a landmark vote to unionize a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee, unions will face another battle next week when the Supreme Court hears arguments in a labor fight at Starbucks. The global coffee giant is asking the Supreme Court to require a stricter test for when courts can step in and protect union organizers who are fired or punished.
The focus on labor unions, whose power in the workplace had dwindled for decades after peaking in the 1950s, comes amid an aggressive push by President Joe Biden to revive the role unions. Unions have seen big victories recently in the auto in industry, in the organizing of health-care workers, and in regaining popularity among workers.
What is the Starbucks fight at the Supreme Court about?
On his first day in the White House, Biden ousted the chief enforcer of federal labor laws as part of goal of being the most pro-union president in history. His new National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, shook up workplace norms by aggressively seeking court orders to immediately fix things that were considered unfair labor practices.
Temporary injunctions requiring companies to rehire workers are particularly important when the labor board thinks a company is trying to illegally squelch budding union organizing campaigns. The agency wielded that tool often as Starbucks waged its own aggressive campaign against workers’ efforts to unionize. In the last two years, the dozen times the NLRB asked a court to step in accounted for nearly 40% of such injunctions sought by the agency, according to Starbucks.
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Published 5:01 a.m. ET April 20, 2024 | Updated 5:01 a.m. ET April 20, 2024
WASHINGTON - On his first day in the White House, President Joe Biden ousted his predecessor’s chief enforcer of federal labor laws as part of Biden’s regularly touted goal of being the most pro-union president in history. Biden’s new National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, shook up workplace norms by aggressively seeking court orders to immediately fix things that were considered unfair labor practices.
Temporary injunctions requiring companies to rehire workers are particularly important when the labor board thinks a company is trying to illegally squelch budding union organizing campaigns. The agency wielded that tool often as Starbucks waged its own aggressive campaign against workers’ efforts to unionize.
In the last two years, the dozen times the NLRB asked a court to step in accounted for nearly 40% of such injunctions sought by the agency, according to Starbucks. Now, in a case that will be argued April 23, the global coffee giant is asking the Supreme Court to require a stricter test for court intervention.
Starbucks has the support of business groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, which urged the court to intervene because of the agency’s “aggressive anti-employer agenda.”
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