October 17, 2024
The Eighth Circuit should reject Starbucks' "groundless" challenge to the well-established standard for determining when employers' statements constitute unlawful threats, the National Labor Relations Board has argued, asking the court to enforce the board's holding that a store manager threatened unionizing workers by saying they might not get raises.
August 07, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board used a "speech-censoring standard" to find a Los Angeles store manager made unlawful comments to a worker about unionization, Starbucks argued to the Eighth Circuit, saying the agency didn't consider evidence about whether employees felt threatened.