Jan 12, 2024

US Supreme Court will hear Starbucks labour fight

Starbucks is taking its union fight to America's highest court. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the coffee giant's challenge of a court order that required it to re-hire union organisers that it fired in 2021. Starbucks has said the case from US labour officials seeking the order was insufficient to justify the command. Starbucks has successfully fought off such orders in other cases where judges held regulators to a tougher standard - a sign of a split in legal opinion that it has asked the Supreme Court to settle. "With the Supreme Court agreeing to take up the Memphis case, Starbucks just expanded its war on its own employees to a war on all US workers."

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