2026-09-02 16:51:52 UTC / 路透社
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2026年9月2日 下午4:51 UTC 更新于2小时前
2026年1月29日，美国纽约市星巴克投资者日活动上展示的星巴克马克杯。路透社/布伦丹·麦克德莫特摄
- 法院表示，国家劳工关系委员会未考虑星巴克的公众形象
- 这是最新一家驳回该机构关于职场着装规定裁决的法院
9月2日 路透社电 — 美国一家上诉法院周三推翻了联邦劳工关系委员会的一项裁决，该委员会曾裁定星巴克违法，禁止曼哈顿一家主打“蒸汽朋克新潮风格”旗舰店的员工穿着支持工会的T恤或佩戴多枚工会徽章。
位于纽约的美国第二巡回上诉法院表示，国家劳工关系委员会未能妥善平衡星巴克向顾客展示其偏好品牌形象的权利，与员工鼓励组建工会的权利。
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星巴克和劳工关系委员会的发言人未立即回复置评请求。
此次裁决是美国上诉法院最新一起认定劳工关系委员会在认定职场着装规定干涉员工倡导改善工作条件和加入工会权利方面过于越界的案件。
去年圣路易斯一家法院曾裁定，家得宝有权禁止员工在橙色工作围裙上书写“黑人的命也是命”字样；2023年另一家法院则表示，特斯拉有权禁止加州工厂员工穿着工会T恤。
此前处理特斯拉相关案件的劳工关系委员会曾表示，任何禁止工会相关用品的职场政策均属非法，除非雇主能够证明存在“特殊情况”为限制措施辩护。
周三由三名法官组成的第二巡回上诉法院合议庭表示，该测试标准将许多常见的职场着装规定判定为非法，未能妥善平衡雇主的合法利益——如安全或公众形象——与尊重员工劳动权利的义务。
这家占地2.3万平方英尺的星巴克门店位于曼哈顿肉库区，内设现场烘焙坊、咖啡和鸡尾酒吧、面包店及零售区域。
与星巴克标准的绿色围裙和黑色上衣不同，该门店员工身着棕色围裙和纯色带领衬衫或高领毛衣，还可选择佩戴少量预先批准的徽章和T恤，这些配饰支持退伍军人、“黑人的命也是命”、西班牙裔 Heritage 月以及世界艾滋病日等各类公益事业，法庭文件显示。
该门店于2022年成为首批实现工会化的星巴克门店之一；此后美国另有700家星巴克门店的员工投票加入工会，并在此过程中向美国国家劳工关系委员会提起了数百起投诉，指控星巴克存在非法劳动行为。
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/starbucks-dress-code-didnt-violate-nyc-workers-labor-rights-2026-09-02/
劳工关系委员会2024年裁定，在该曼哈顿门店工会化之前，星巴克通过禁止员工穿着工会T恤和佩戴多枚徽章干涉了当地员工的权利，且该公司未能为相关政策提供任何合法依据。
第二巡回上诉法院周三推翻了这一裁决，并将案件发回劳工关系委员会，要求其“适用更均衡的平衡测试标准”。最初审理此案时，这个五人委员会由民主党占多数，如今则由唐纳德·特朗普总统任命的3名共和党委员对1名民主党委员形成多数优势。
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Starbucks dress code didn’t violate NYC workers’ labor rights, US court rules
2026-09-02 16:51:52 UTC / Reuters
By Daniel Wiessner
September 2, 2026 4:51 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
A Starbucks mug is displayed during the Starbucks Investor Day event in New York City, U.S., January 29, 2026. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
- Labor board did not consider Starbucks’ public image, court says
- Latest court to rebuff agency’s rulings on workplace dress codes
Sept 2 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday reversed a federal labor board ruling that said Starbucks broke the law by barring workers at a flagship Manhattan store with a “steampunk hipster vibe” from wearing t-shirts or multiple pins supporting a union.
The New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the National Labor Relations Board failed to properly balance Starbucks’ ability to present its preferred image to customers with its workers’ rights to encourage unionizing.
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Starbucks and a spokesman for the labor board did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The ruling is the latest by a U.S. appeals court to say that the labor board went too far in finding workplace dress codes interfered with employees’ rights to advocate for better working conditions and join unions.
A St. Louis-based court last year said Home Depot had the right to bar employees from writing “Black Lives Matter” on their orange work aprons, and in 2023 a different court said Tesla could bar factory workers in California from wearing union t-shirts.
The labor board in the case involving Tesla had said that any workplace policy prohibiting union paraphernalia was unlawful unless an employer could prove that “special circumstances” exist to justify restrictions.
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A three-judge 2nd Circuit panel on Wednesday said that test rendered many common workplace dress codes illegal and failed to properly balance employers’ legitimate interests, such as safety or their public image, with their obligation to respect workers’ labor rights.
The 23,000-square-foot Starbucks store in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District includes an on-site roastery, coffee and cocktail bars, a bakery and retail space.
Instead of Starbucks’ standard green aprons and black tops, workers there don brown aprons and collared shirts or turtlenecks in muted colors and can opt to wear a handful of pre-approved shirts and pins. Those support various causes such as military veterans, Black Lives Matter, Hispanic Heritage Month and World AIDS Day, according to court filings.
The store in 2022 became one of the first Starbucks locations to unionize; workers at 700 other U.S. stores have voted to join unions since then, and in the process have filed hundreds of complaints with the NLRB accusing the company of illegal labor practices.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/starbucks-dress-code-didnt-violate-nyc-workers-labor-rights-us-court-rules-2026-09-02/
The board in 2024 ruled that before the Manhattan store unionized, Starbucks interfered with workers’ rights there by prohibiting union shirts and more than one pin, and that the company failed to show any legitimate justification for the policies.
The 2nd Circuit on Wednesday overturned the decision and sent the case back to the labor board “to apply a more evenly measured balancing test.” The five-member board had a Democratic majority when it first decided the case and now has a 3-1 Republican majority appointed by President Donald Trump.
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Reporting by Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New York; Editing by David Gregorio
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