WRI Director Mark Gaston Pearce Discusses Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney and the Strategy of Corporations Regarding the Conservative Supreme Court
April 24, 2024In an interview with Courthouse News Service, WRI Director, Mark Gaston Pearce, discusses the different standards courts use in determining whether to impose temporary 10(j) injunctions on employers while ULPs are litigated before ALJs and the Board. One such 10(j) injunction, imposed by a federal judge on Starbucks for the company's termination of the "Memphis 7", is at issue in Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney, which was argued before the Supreme Court on April 23. Pearce expects the Court to side with Starbucks and make the employer-friendly four-factor test the national standard. He explained that this case fits into a broader corporate strategy to use the conservative Supreme Court to challenge the NLRB's authority.