A D.C. federal judge should reject former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox's claim that the Trump administration is trying to ax landmark U.S. Supreme Court precedent, President Donald Trump and board Chairman Marvin Kaplan argued Friday, saying they only want the decision properly applied.
The number of striking workers dropped in 2024 after an unusually active year for strike activity the year before, but labor experts predict that the dip will not be permanent as the labor movement prepares for a less friendly environment for unions.
The National Labor Relations Board's two remaining members are continuing to work on cases — despite not constituting a decision-making quorum — with the goal of quickly working through a growing backlog when they're able to act, they said Wednesday at an American Bar Association conference.
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A D.C. federal judge should reject former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox's claim that the Trump administration is trying to ax landmark U.S. Supreme Court precedent, President Donald Trump and board Chairman Marvin Kaplan argued Friday, saying they only want the decision properly applied.
The number of striking workers dropped in 2024 after an unusually active year for strike activity the year before, but labor experts predict that the dip will not be permanent as the labor movement prepares for a less friendly environment for unions.
The National Labor Relations Board's two remaining members are continuing to work on cases — despite not constituting a decision-making quorum — with the goal of quickly working through a growing backlog when they're able to act, they said Wednesday at an American Bar Association conference.
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February 28, 2025
Current and former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees alleged in D.C. federal court filings that the Trump administration is much more aggressively trying to gut the agency than it has let on, warning it has already damaged vital functions.
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February 28, 2025
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management's acting director instructed federal agency heads to submit information about the official time unionized workers spent negotiating, handling grievances and engaging in labor-management relations, issuing the memorandum to carry out President Donald Trump's aim of restoring "efficiency and accountability" in the government.
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February 28, 2025
An electrical worker can try again to argue that two trustees of his union pension fund violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by paying themselves over $1 million in compensation from the fund's assets, with the Second Circuit ruling Friday that the worker has standing to sue.
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February 28, 2025
Starbucks violated federal labor law at two Connecticut stores in its efforts to quell support for Workers United, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, dinging the coffee giant for unlawfully firing a union supporter and threatening the loss of a Lyft reimbursement, among other actions.
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February 28, 2025
Labor lawyers don't know yet how the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 2024 to scale back deference to agencies will affect their practices, nor do they agree on how the courts have treated this emerging issue so far, a panel at an American Bar Association showed Friday.
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February 28, 2025
A hospital in Kennewick, Washington, wasn't obligated to enter into a written agreement with a union after two meetings about potential wage enhancements, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the union and hospital still need to hash out some disagreements before codifying the changes.
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February 28, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a labor dispute involving the National Labor Relations Board, a UPS subsidiary and an International Brotherhood of Teamsters local. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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February 27, 2025
Arguing that pharmacy benefit managers accused of artificially inflating insulin prices have already "unreasonably delayed" discovery, the Federal Trade Commission is asking an in-house judge to push back an evidentiary trial in the case, saying it would allow the administrative court more time to accommodate up to 17 expert witnesses.
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February 27, 2025
The Department of Government Efficiency must tell a group of unions whom it's sent into the Department of Labor, the Department of Health & Human Services and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and what computer systems they've accessed, a D.C. federal judge ruled Thursday.
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February 27, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board has asked the Sixth Circuit to deny an auto parts manufacturer's bid to pause an NLRB case on constitutional grounds, saying the company hasn't shown it would suffer the type of harm that justifies an injunction if the case moves forward.
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February 27, 2025
A pile of suits seeking to freeze the National Labor Relations Board's prosecution of specific employers on constitutionality grounds aren't a threat to disable the agency because losing would only spell the end of its officials' job protections, a board litigator said Thursday at an American Bar Association conference.
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February 27, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board is requiring its employees to return to the office full time by March 31, according to a copy of a new policy obtained by Law360, drawing ire from the unions representing the agency's workers who claim the requirements violate their collective bargaining agreements.
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February 27, 2025
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has ruled that trucking company Yellow Corp. is not liable for its failure to provide 60 days notice of layoffs to 22,000 union workers who lost their jobs as the company descended into Chapter 11, finding that Yellow was a "liquidating fiduciary" at the time and intended to comply with the WARN Act.
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February 27, 2025
President Donald Trump's nominee for deputy labor secretary faced intense questioning about "the sheer incompetence" of the administration's actions in what otherwise might have been expected to be a less controversial U.S. Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
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February 27, 2025
A farmworker union and Kern County, California, residents accused U.S. Border Patrol agents of carrying out an unlawful, nearly weeklong immigration enforcement sweep to arrest people of color who appeared to be farmworkers regardless of their immigration status.
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February 27, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor tapped a former Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner with more than 25 years of experience on employment and immigration law to be chair of the Administrative Review Board.
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February 27, 2025
A U.S. Senate committee voted Thursday to move forward the nomination of former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead the U.S. Department of Labor.
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February 26, 2025
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors were too quick to go after Amazon for banning off-duty workers from accessing company facilities three years ago, the company argued, saying prosecutors owed the e-commerce giant a chance to adjust its 2022 off-duty access policy before alleging the policy violated a 2021 settlement.
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February 26, 2025
California Attorney General Rob Bonta improperly hired Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP to assist with the state's climate deception suit against fossil fuel companies when attorneys in his office were capable of handling the litigation, the union representing the public lawyers contended in a newly filed state court complaint.
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February 26, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board told the Third Circuit Wednesday that an injunction is needed to save what is left of the union representing newsroom employees at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, though members of the panel questioned if the NewsGuild's alleged loss of bargaining power was due to the publisher's actions or a two-year-long strike.
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February 26, 2025
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday to affirm dismissal of FedEx retirees' suit alleging their pensions were undervalued due to outdated mortality data used in conversions, warning that a reversal in favor of the proposed class could set off a wave of new benefits litigation.
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February 26, 2025
Amazon mounted an aggressive anti-union campaign at a Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse, resulting in a National Labor Relations Board judge correctly ordering a new union representation election at the facility, board prosecutors and the union told the NLRB, asking it to uphold the judge's order.
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February 26, 2025
Aramark and a uniform supplier spinoff company asked a Georgia federal judge Tuesday to dismiss claims that it intentionally lied to investors about chronic underfunding of the business, accusing a union pension fund of "using a pleading tactic universally condemned by the courts: fraud by hindsight."
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February 26, 2025
The Merit Systems Protection Board paused the Trump administration's attempt to fire six federal workers on probationary status, saying the U.S. Office of Special Counsel showed it was likely the firings violated civil service laws that require the government to undertake reductions in force based on merit.
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February 26, 2025
In a shift from a foundational policy of his fired predecessor, the acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board said at an American Bar Association conference Wednesday that he will settle cases on terms short of what prosecutors could win at trial.