August 15, 2025
An Eighth Circuit panel must reconsider its decision to vacate a National Labor Relations Board ruling about a Starbucks manager's remarks during a union organizing drive, the board argued, claiming the panel did not apply the proper test for reviewing threats about wages and benefits.
June 17, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board improperly ignored a Starbucks employee's impression of her manager's comments during a union campaign when concluding the comments were unlawful, a split Eighth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday, resolving a case that challenged the board's standard for determining when an employer's anti-union rhetoric violates labor law.
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.