May 15, 2024
The Second Circuit on Wednesday revived the National Labor Relations Board's suit seeking to halt Starbucks' alleged labor violations nationwide, finding that the lower court erred in tossing the suit for noncompliance with its "overbroad" discovery order granting the coffee chain's subpoenas seeking confidential union intel and workers' communications.
January 19, 2024
A Second Circuit panel on Friday appeared conflicted about whether a New York federal judge abused his discretion by granting Starbucks too-broad discovery into union intel in response to the National Labor Relations Board's bid for an injunction blocking labor violations nationwide.
January 12, 2024
In the coming week, the Second Circuit will hear the National Labor Relations Board's argument for overturning a trial judge's decision denying its request for an injunction against Starbucks over its response to a nationwide union organizing campaign. Here, Law360 explores this and other major labor and employment cases on the docket in New York.
January 05, 2024
Workers United urged the Second Circuit to send back a discovery dispute over Starbucks' subpoenas seeking internal union communications to a different district court judge, arguing that the case "raises existential questions" for unions.
November 27, 2023
A Starbucks barista asked the National Labor Relations Board to decertify the union at her Buffalo, New York, store not because of the company's resistance to unionization, but because Workers United representatives failed to adequately communicate with the staff, attorneys for the barista said Monday in an amicus brief.
November 21, 2023
Starbucks defended a district court decision that tossed a National Labor Relations Board injunction bid in Buffalo, New York, over the board's refusal to back down in a linked suit, telling the Second Circuit that the judge's discovery order and subsequent sanction to enforce it were fair.
October 23, 2023
The Second Circuit should override a trial court decision that declined to make Starbucks cease violating workers' union rights in Buffalo, New York, and reassign the case to a judge who won't sneer at the National Labor Relations Board's power and process, the agency said.