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作者：乔纳森·斯坦普尔
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2025年11月12日，美国华盛顿州西雅图派克市场首批星巴克门店之一的橱窗上贴着星巴克原始logo，路人从店前走过。路透社/马特·米尔斯·麦克奈特 购买授权，打开新标签页
9月4日（路透社）——美国联邦上诉法院周五拒绝执行国家劳资关系委员会（NLRB）的大部分裁决。该裁决称星巴克（SBUX.O）非法威胁员工因试图组建工会而遭到报复，并谎称其正在监控工会组织活动。
在一项2比0的裁决中，美国第五巡回上诉法院驳回了相关诉求，即这家咖啡连锁店违反了联邦劳动法，当时堪萨斯州威奇托市一家门店的经理和副经理告诉员工，他们关闭招聘门户并缩短工时是因为工会或其他受保护的活动。
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总部位于新奥尔良的该法院维持了一项裁定，即星巴克非法威胁称，如果员工组建工会，将拒绝向一名怀孕员工提供产假福利。
星巴克发言人表示，这家总部位于西雅图的公司对该裁决感到“鼓舞”，并“始终致力于依法保护我们‘合作伙伴’的权利，直接与我们的合作伙伴沟通，确保我们的咖啡店能够安全、高效地运营”。星巴克将员工称为“合作伙伴”。
国家劳资关系委员会没有立即回应置评请求。
全美已有700多家星巴克门店的员工投票决定加入工会，并向国家劳资关系委员会提交了数百起投诉，指控该公司存在非法劳工行为。
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第二次法律胜利
巡回法院法官斯蒂芬·希金逊表示，有关招聘门户和门店营业时间的言论并非报复威胁，因为招聘暂停似乎并未危及员工的工作保障，而人员不足可能是缩短工时的合理理由。
他还表示，门店经理卡梅拉·内里称她知晓工会组织讨论，员工应牢记投票成功后的影响，这些言论并不具有强制性，称其并非“超出寻常”。
不过，希金逊发现，有充分证据表明，这名怀孕员工玛雅·奎利亚尔-塞拉菲尼可以“合理地认为”工会活动可能会减少她的福利。
该法院作出裁决的两天前，星巴克说服曼哈顿联邦上诉法院推翻了国家劳资关系委员会的一项裁决，该裁决称星巴克非法禁止曼哈顿肉库区一家门店的员工穿着支持工会的T恤或佩戴多个徽章。
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该法院表示，国家劳资关系委员会未能妥善平衡星巴克向顾客展示其偏好形象的权利与员工鼓励组建工会的权利。
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Starbucks anti-unionization case brought by NLRB narrowed by US appeals court
2026-09-04 18:42:16 UTC / Reuters
By Jonathan Stempel
September 4, 2026 6:42 PM UTC Updated 5 mins ago
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Sept 4 (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday declined to enforce most of a National Labor Relations Board ruling that Starbucks (SBUX.O) illegally threatened employees with reprisals for trying to unionize and pretended it was surveilling attempts to organize.
In a 2-0 decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims that the coffee chain violated federal labor law when a Wichita, Kansas, store manager and assistant manager told employees they closed their hiring portal and reduced hours because of union or other protected activities.
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The New Orleans-based court upheld a finding that Starbucks illegally threatened to deny maternity leave benefits to a pregnant employee if workers unionized.
A Starbucks spokesperson said the Seattle-based company was “encouraged” by the decision, and “remains committed to protecting our partners’ rights under the law, engaging directly with our partners, and ensuring our coffeehouses can operate safely and effectively.” Starbucks refers to employees as partners.
The NLRB did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Employees at more than 700 Starbucks stores have voted to join unions, and have filed hundreds of complaints with the NLRB accusing the company of illegal labor practices.
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Circuit Judge Stephen Higginson said statements about the hiring portal and store hours were not threats of reprisal because a hiring pause didn’t appear to imperil employees’ job security, while understaffing might have justified shorter hours.
He also said store manager Carmella Neri’s statements that she knew about unionization discussions and that employees should keep in mind the impact of a successful vote were not coercive, saying the statements were not “out of the ordinary.”
Higginson nonetheless found substantial evidence that the pregnant employee, Maia Cuellar-Serafini, could “reasonably feel” that union activities could reduce her benefits.
The court ruled two days after Starbucks persuaded the federal appeals court in Manhattan to reverse an NLRB finding that it illegally barred workers at a store in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District from wearing t-shirts or multiple pins supporting a union.
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That court said the NLRB failed to properly balance Starbucks’ ability to present its preferred image to customers with employees’ right to encourage unionizing.
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Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Alistair Bell and Nick Zieminski
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