January 01, 2024
A wide variety of cases are likely to keep retail industry attorneys busy in 2024, including high-profile antitrust actions against Amazon and Google, a growing number of greenwashing disputes, and skirmishes between major retailers and their increasingly unionized workforces.
August 08, 2023
Starbucks' decision to fire seven pro-union workers at a Memphis, Tennessee, store had a high likelihood of chilling organizing activity, the Sixth Circuit said Tuesday, ruling that a Tennessee federal judge was correct to compel the company to rehire the so-called Memphis 7.
May 04, 2023
A Sixth Circuit judge appeared sympathetic Thursday to Starbucks Corp.'s bid to undo an order forcing the coffee chain to rehire seven union activists at a Memphis, Tennessee, store, with the judge seemingly unconvinced that the firings affected union support.
January 30, 2023
A district court wrongly based its order to reinstate seven fired Starbucks workers in Memphis, Tennessee, on speculative evidence about effects to bargaining, the coffee chain told the Sixth Circuit, arguing Workers United's representation election win at the shop makes an injunction unwarranted.
January 13, 2023
Workers United asked the Sixth Circuit to uphold a lower court order requiring Starbucks to rehire a group of activists known as the Memphis Seven, saying the fact that the union won its election at the workers' store does not minimize the damage the firings did to union support.
January 05, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board urged the Sixth Circuit on Thursday to uphold a court order making Starbucks rehire seven workers fired from a Memphis store, saying a Tennessee federal judge rightly found their "outstandingly brazen" firings eroded union support.
December 13, 2022
Starbucks urged the Sixth Circuit to reverse an order requiring the coffee chain to reinstate seven union supporters at a Memphis shop who were fired this year, arguing that the evidence backing a lower court's ruling doesn't show the union lost support among workers.
September 07, 2022
Starbucks must offer to reinstate seven Memphis workers who were allegedly fired for their union activities, after the Sixth Circuit concluded that the company had not shown it was likely to win an appeal of a lower court's order calling for the workers to be rehired.
August 24, 2022
The Sixth Circuit stayed an order that Starbucks rehire seven fired union backers at a Memphis store while it mulls the company's objections to the National Labor Relations Board's injunction win last week.