February 17, 2022
A lawsuit alleging New York highway and canal operators illegally fired or otherwise punished union members cannot move forward as a class action, a federal judge has ruled, holding that the workers' injuries are too different to make class certification a sensible path.
August 20, 2021
A New York federal judge will not reconsider his decision to toss part of a proposed class action alleging the state Thruway Authority and Canal Corp. targeted union workers for layoffs, saying the workers didn't make new arguments for how they are similar to nonunion workers who weren't fired.
April 17, 2017
A New York federal judge denied dueling summary judgment motions Friday in a class action over the 2013 layoffs of nearly 200 union-represented New York State Thruway Authority and New York State Canal Corp. workers, saying it's too early to decide whether the layoffs violated the workers' right to unionize.