The Supreme Court seemed sympathetic on April 23 to a request by Starbucks to rein in the National Labor Relations Board’s authority to decide if fired union activists in Tennessee should get their jobs back.

Labor activists argue such a pro-management ruling could discourage union organizing.

The court has tended to rule for employers in recent years. Last June, in Glacier Northwest Inc. v. Teamsters, the court found 8–1 that employers may sue collective bargaining units for damages caused by strikes.

For years, the coffee giant has been battling organized labor, which is trying to unionize baristas across the United States.

The company said it terminated the employment of the so-called Memphis Seven because they ran afoul of company policy by letting a television news crew into a store after business hours.

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