President Donald Trump lacks the power to reorganize the executive branch and push for mass terminations of workers when Congress hasn't given its blessing, unions and other groups told a California federal court.
Two Starbucks workers seeking to void National Labor Relations Board members' job protections urged the D.C. Circuit to keep a challenge to their suit's dismissal alive over the objections of the board, which argued its acceptance of the workers' argument moots the case.
National Labor Relations Board general counsel nominee Crystal Carey has taken some criticism for her employment with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, a prominent management-side firm that represents big-name clients before the board. Here, Law360 explores federal officials' ethics obligations and what they may mean for Carey's potential role as the labor board's next top cop.
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President Donald Trump lacks the power to reorganize the executive branch and push for mass terminations of workers when Congress hasn't given its blessing, unions and other groups told a California federal court.
Two Starbucks workers seeking to void National Labor Relations Board members' job protections urged the D.C. Circuit to keep a challenge to their suit's dismissal alive over the objections of the board, which argued its acceptance of the workers' argument moots the case.
National Labor Relations Board general counsel nominee Crystal Carey has taken some criticism for her employment with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, a prominent management-side firm that represents big-name clients before the board. Here, Law360 explores federal officials' ethics obligations and what they may mean for Carey's potential role as the labor board's next top cop.
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April 29, 2025
The labor union representing the federal government's patent examiners has filed a formal complaint alleging a representative for the union was blocked from being able to talk at a meeting between the workers and the federal patent office.
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April 29, 2025
Bankrupt crafting supply seller Joann Inc. proposed a deal on Monday with unionized workers at an Ohio distribution facility that will pay $1.3 million in severance and unused time-off payments for staying at work until the facility is closed.
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April 29, 2025
The Kroger-owned grocery chain King Soopers urged a Colorado federal judge Tuesday to preserve its lawsuit against a United Food and Commercial Workers local, saying the company can prove that the union is placing unlawful pressure on it to bargain with multiple locals at once.
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April 29, 2025
Exxon Mobil and a United Steelworkers local ended the oil giant's Texas federal court dispute aiming to halt the union from relitigating an issue about the automatic granting of grievances, with a judge approving the parties' request to toss the case.
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April 29, 2025
A union pension fund won its multimillion-dollar dispute with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. on appeal Tuesday, with the Second Circuit reversing a New York federal judge's 2023 decision that the PBGC was within its rights to reject the fund's 2022 application for $132 million in financial assistance.
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April 29, 2025
A union is fighting Station Casinos LLC's argument that the National Labor Relations Board lacks the authority to prosecute the company for violating labor law, telling a Nevada federal judge that Station's constitutional challenge to the board's structure is an attempt to evade responsibility for its illegal anti-union tactics.
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April 29, 2025
Staff members at the Federal Defenders of New York have announced their plans to join their attorney colleagues as members of the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys.
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April 29, 2025
The publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette can't get the Third Circuit to clarify or tweak an order to put its newsroom employees back on their old health insurance plan, despite concerns from the newspaper company that it may not have been eligible to reenroll them in the plan and would rather go back to bargaining instead.
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April 28, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Monday explained his rationale for blocking President Donald Trump's effort to end collective bargaining for certain federal workers last week, saying that it's likely the president doesn't have the authority to exclude a slew of federal agencies from the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute.
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April 28, 2025
An ExxonMobil unit Monday urged the full Fifth Circuit to undo a panel of judges' decision backing the National Labor Relations Board in holding the company liable for unfair labor practices despite the board freeing it from allegations years prior, warning of a "politicization" of federal labor laws.
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April 28, 2025
A D.C. Circuit panel said Monday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau must refrain for now from mass employee firings, backtracking from a prior decision that the Trump administration had used to attempt a now-suspended layoff of nearly all the agency's staff.
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April 28, 2025
The Third Circuit won't give a group of dairy businesses a second chance to prevent a Teamsters union pension fund from suing them and their affiliates to enforce a $39 million settlement, the court announced Monday.
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April 28, 2025
The Trump administration is urging the D.C. Circuit to narrow an injunction preserving the agency that oversees Voice of America while the administration appeals a ruling that halted the broadcasting service's dismantling, saying a trial court judge ruled too broadly by reinstating grant agreements and employees.
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April 28, 2025
A group of 17 HCA Florida hospitals must go before an arbitrator to resolve a Service Employees International union affiliate's grievances about legal fees tied to a dues deduction dispute, a federal judge ruled Monday, finding the grievances fall under an arbitration provision in the parties' labor contracts.
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April 28, 2025
Amazon didn't violate federal labor law by firing and disciplining workers while a union organizing effort was taking off at a facility near the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, the e-commerce giant argued, alleging National Labor Relations Board attorneys are seeking an unconstitutional nationwide notice-reading remedy.
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April 28, 2025
The Ninth Circuit on Monday refused to reopen a former bartender's lawsuit alleging a Las Vegas hotel forced her to take leave and eventually fired her for tremors caused by her cancer treatment, saying she hadn't provided enough evidence to back up her claims.
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April 28, 2025
A New York federal judge should block the U.S. Office of Personnel Management from disclosing information about federal employees to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, three unions argued in an updated injunction request, saying their position is stronger now that the judge denied the government's dismissal bid.
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April 28, 2025
The U.S. government asked a D.C. federal court to throw out four organizations' bid to keep the White House's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing confidential taxpayer data, saying their suit fails to show injury to the groups' members.
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April 28, 2025
President Donald Trump disputed the American Foreign Service Association's injunction bid to block portions of his executive order that gutted collective bargaining rights for federal workers, telling a D.C. federal judge the union could still receive dues and represent employees in the grievance process.
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April 28, 2025
The United Parcel Service deducted hundreds of dollars from unionized workers' April 3 paychecks without their consent, a Teamsters unit and four employees told a New York federal court.
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April 28, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge properly concluded that a healthcare dispute between a power plant operator and an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local was arbitrable, the union said, asking the Third Circuit to uphold the judge's decision to send the fight to arbitration.
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April 25, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's order last month seeking to end collective bargaining for workers at more than a dozen federal agencies with national security roles, two days after suggesting during oral arguments that Trump's order was retaliatory.
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April 25, 2025
A group of unions lack standing to ask a New York federal judge to reverse staffing cuts and field office closures at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the federal government has argued, opposing the group's bid for an injunction undoing the shrinkage of the labor-management dispute resolution agency.
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April 25, 2025
Four local governments have joined with a government employees union to challenge the federal government's termination of $11 billion in grants stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, seeking an injunction restoring the funds and a declaration that the decision to mass-terminate the grants was unlawful.
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April 25, 2025
A Detroit water infrastructure company accused the National Labor Relations Board's acting general counsel of a "procedural ambush" when his office asked to pursue "direct or foreseeable" harms under the board's Thryv decision, saying the counsel's request to revise an exception filed by agency prosecutors came nearly three years late.