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Melissa Felcher is an associate in the Labor and Employment Law Department and a member of the Labor Management Relations Practice Group and the Counseling, Training and Pay Equity Practice Group.

Melissa earned her J.D. at Brooklyn Law School, where she served as an Executive Notes Editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. While at Brooklyn Law School, she interned for the Honorable Gregory H. Woods of the Southern District of New York.

On January 12, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will hear a challenge in a key case involving the ease with which the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) may successfully petition a district court for injunctive relief in unfair labor practice (ULP) cases.

The outcome of this case

As we previously discussed in June 2022, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) pursued a 10(j) injunction against a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York after it fired workers for allegedly engaging in union organizing activities—an action taken based on an initiative articulated by NLRB General Counsel Jennifer

On June 21, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a press release indicating that the Regional Director of Region 3 requested injunctive relief from a United States District Court on behalf of seven former Starbucks employees in Buffalo, New York after the employees were allegedly fired for engaging

On April 27, 2022, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo released a memorandum to all NLRB field offices detailing and encouraging an extensive partnership with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (“FMCS”).

The FMCS is an independent agency created to “preserve and promote labor-management peace and cooperation.” In doing so, FMCS