US supreme court to consider Starbucks case over fired pro-union workers

Court agrees to consider challenge by coffee chain to judicial decision requiring it to rehire seven union activists in Tennessee

The US supreme court agreed to consider a challenge by Starbucks to a judicial decision requiring the world's largest coffee chain to rehire seven union activists in Memphis, Tennessee. A federal agency determined the workers were fired for supporting unionization.

A lower court found that Starbucks - grappling with a wave of unionization across the United States - probably discouraged other employees from exercising their rights under US labor law by dismissing the workers, dubbed the Memphis Seven", in 2022.