August 23, 2023
A New York federal judge on Wednesday lambasted the National Labor Relations Board for its refusal to comply with discovery orders in an unfair labor practice action against Starbucks, calling the board's bids to duck discovery obligations "repugnant."
August 18, 2023
A New York federal judge is scheduled this week to hear a former Bloomberg employee's arguments for rejecting a magistrate judge's recommendation to toss a collective action alleging that the company failed to pay overtime owed to workers under state and federal law. Here, Law360 explores this and other major labor and employment cases on the docket in New York.
July 24, 2023
Workers United can't make another attempt at blocking Starbucks' subpoenas in a National Labor Relations Board injunction proceeding over stores in the Buffalo, New York-area, the coffee giant told a federal judge, while also challenging agency prosecutors' bid to pause the case.
June 16, 2023
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors urged a New York federal judge Friday to pause their bid to block Starbucks from stifling union organizing in Buffalo while the board weighs whether the company suppressed workers' rights by pursuing overly broad subpoenas in response to the suit.
May 09, 2023
The Second Circuit on Tuesday dismissed attempts by Workers United and the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel to block Starbucks' subpoenas seeking internal union campaign communications, saying the union and board attorneys didn't show that the requests were necessary.
April 06, 2023
NLRB attorneys asked a New York federal judge to take quick action in an injunction case seeking to bar Starbucks' alleged interference with union organizing at its U.S. stores, saying the court should adopt a recent administrative decision that found the coffee chain violated federal labor law multiple times.
January 25, 2023
A New York federal judge on Wednesday stood by an order making Starbucks Workers United turn over internal campaign communications to aid the company's defense against a National Labor Relations Board suit seeking to block the company from interfering with worker organizing.
January 17, 2023
Starbucks called on a New York federal judge to shut down the National Labor Relations Board general counsel's attempt to avoid subpoenas seeking communications about organizing between the union, workers and the media, saying the board attorneys' arguments are "brash" and repetitive.
January 09, 2023
A New York federal judge squashed bids from the NLRB general counsel and Workers United for more time to challenge a subpoena order requiring the union to submit its communications with workers, saying the parties didn't update him on the union's Second Circuit appeal.
November 21, 2022
Starbucks did not violate federal labor law when it increased workers' wages in January, fired workers involved in union activity, hosted "listening sessions" to hear workers' concerns or staffed stores with more supervisors, the company told a National Labor Relations Board judge in a sprawling, 200-plus page brief.