Starbucks to Fight Memphis Labor Law Order Before Sixth Circuit

Starbucks Corp.'s challenge to an order requiring it to rehire a group of fired union organizers presents the first federal appeals court test of the NLRB general counsel’s strategy to mobilize judicial power to combat a host of alleged labor law violations at the world’s largest coffee chain.

Starbucks Workers United’s decisive 11-3 victory in the election at a Memphis, Tenn., store—held after the terminations of the workers known as the “Memphis Seven"—shows that the injunction wasn’t justified, the company will assert during oral argument at the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Thursday.

“There can be no ...