Supreme Court Starbucks Ruling Seen as Gift to Corporate Union-Busters

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Ketanji Brown Jackson,Labor,Memphis Seven

Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

Labor advocates decried Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Starbucks in a labor dispute between the international coffee giant and seven of its employees who were terminated after leading a unionization campaign at their Memphis store. In an 8-1 decision—with liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting—the justices in Starbucks v. McKinney made it more difficult for the National Labor Relations Board to temporarily halt alleged unfair labor practices.

'Working people have so few tools to protect and defend themselves when their employers break the law,' Lynne Fox, president of Workers United, the union representing Starbucks employees, said in a statement. 'That makes today's ruling by the Supreme Court particularly egregious,' Fox added. 'It underscores how the economy is rigged against working people all the way up to the Supreme Court.

 

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