Supreme Court to Hear Starbucks Appeal Over Fired Memphis Labor Activists

A lower court ordered the company to reinstate the ‘Memphis Seven’ who were fired for union organizing.

Arlene Geiger (L) holds a sign supporting Starbucks workers outside a Starbucks store on Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York on Nov. 16, 2023. Richard Drew/AP Photo

The U.S. Supreme Court will review Starbucks’s appeal against a lower court’s order to rehire labor activists in Memphis, Tennessee. The activists were dismissed following their disclosure of a union organizing drive to local media.

For years, the coffee chain has been battling an organized labor movement that has been trying to unionize baristas across the United States.