October 29, 2024
The Ninth Circuit will hold off on deciding the fate of the National Labor Relations Board's Cemex ruling, which set a new standard for issuing bargaining orders in administrative proceedings, while it mulls whether the structure of those proceedings is still viable under recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
October 21, 2024
In the first court challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's landmark Cemex ruling, the Ninth Circuit grappled Monday with whether the labor board's new standard for issuing bargaining orders complies with a framework the U.S. Supreme Court set out more than 50 years ago.
October 18, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit in which Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLC and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are each seeking to undo a major National Labor Relations Board decision regarding union representation. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
July 08, 2024
The second half of the year will feature action in several cases with major implications for the labor law landscape, including SpaceX's suits seeking to gut the National Labor Relations Board and a board case that could extend organizing rights to college athletes. Here, Law360 looks at these and other cases to watch in the second half of 2024.
April 30, 2024
The Service Employees International Union invoked the nationwide organizing campaign at Starbucks stores in a request for the Ninth Circuit to back a National Labor Relations Board precedent shift for bargaining orders, arguing the new standard will help deter labor law violations.
April 23, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board urged the Ninth Circuit to uphold a decision in which it lessened the standard for issuing bargaining orders against employers who commit labor law violations in response to organizing, saying the revised approach will better deter unfair labor practices.
February 05, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board correctly ordered a cement manufacturer to bargain with the Teamsters after finding the company meddled in a union campaign, but it erred by dismissing a string of unfair labor practice allegations from the blockbuster case, the Teamsters told the Ninth Circuit.
February 02, 2024
The company at the center of a blockbuster National Labor Relations Board ruling that subjects employers to bargaining orders if they meddle with union election campaigns urged the Ninth Circuit to nix this "radical change," arguing the board overstepped precedent and the law.