The full D.C. Circuit on Monday lifted a March panel decision pausing the reinstatement of National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board members that President Donald Trump fired, saying U.S. Supreme Court precedent blessing limitations on the president's ability to fire agency officials still stands.
A proposal to overhaul Colorado's law requiring unions to go through a second election before negotiating union security clauses is undergoing last-minute discussions over its final form in hopes of thwarting the governor's veto threat.
Federal employee unions and advocacy groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reject the Trump administration's bid to pause a California court order reinstating tens of thousands of probationary workers fired from six agencies, arguing the government can't escape self-inflicted harms brought on by its allegedly unlawful actions.
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The full D.C. Circuit on Monday lifted a March panel decision pausing the reinstatement of National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board members that President Donald Trump fired, saying U.S. Supreme Court precedent blessing limitations on the president's ability to fire agency officials still stands.
A proposal to overhaul Colorado's law requiring unions to go through a second election before negotiating union security clauses is undergoing last-minute discussions over its final form in hopes of thwarting the governor's veto threat.
Federal employee unions and advocacy groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reject the Trump administration's bid to pause a California court order reinstating tens of thousands of probationary workers fired from six agencies, arguing the government can't escape self-inflicted harms brought on by its allegedly unlawful actions.
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April 07, 2025
The American Federation of Government Employees and one of its affiliates requested an injunction to block U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's move to end a collective bargaining agreement covering Transportation Security Administration employees, accusing the Trump administration of retaliating against the union.
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April 07, 2025
President Donald Trump's executive order ending collective bargaining with unions representing federal workers illegally targets unions that don't agree with him, the American Foreign Service Association said in a lawsuit filed in District of Columbia federal court Monday.
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April 07, 2025
Kroger and Albertsons have accused Colorado's attorney general of going on a "fishing expedition" as they wait for a ruling on a claim that the grocers brokered an illegal "no-poach" agreement during a 2022 grocery store strike, in a motion asking a Colorado state court to quash document requests into a February strike.
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April 07, 2025
Teamsters representatives didn't taint the results of a UPS union representation election by chatting with workers in a warehouse parking lot while the vote went on inside, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Monday, saying the representatives' "brief conversations with three voters … did not constitute objectionable electioneering or voter intimidation."
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April 07, 2025
A New York federal judge won't block an upcoming officer election at a New York City elevator workers' union or immediately reinstate two members who claimed they were retaliated against for supporting a candidate that the local's president didn't like, finding they waited too long to request an injunction.
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April 07, 2025
A Teamsters local urged a Missouri federal court to uphold an arbitration award requiring Unilever to reinstate an employee who was let go for allegedly falsifying company records, arguing the arbitrator issued a reasonable decision that the worker was fired without just cause.
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April 04, 2025
Jones Lang LaSalle Americas Inc. urged the D.C. Circuit to rethink its decision affirming a National Labor Relations Board's bargaining order against the company, contending the appeals court wrongly compared this case to other precedent and found the business forfeited an argument.
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April 04, 2025
The Sixth Circuit said Friday that federal law bars Fiat Chrysler engineers from pursuing state-based claims alleging they lost wages and benefits after being transferred in connection to an illicit bribery scheme involving former United Auto Workers officials and company executives.
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April 04, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to reverse a Connecticut federal judge's decision giving final approval to a class and collective action settlement between a home health care company and workers based on a memorandum of understanding that the company claims is unenforceable.
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April 04, 2025
An arbitrator correctly tossed a New Jersey State Police troopers union's grievance over overtime calculations because the collective bargaining agreement is ambiguous on which benchmark to use, a state appellate panel ruled Friday.
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April 04, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board judge said Starbucks illegally called the police on organizers who leafleted a cafe in New York state, saying a manager called to suppress the protest and not to protect an organizer or get nonemployees off its property.
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April 04, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit in a challenge to California's independent contractor classification law by trucking industry groups and two drivers, a case that previously went before the appeals court. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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April 04, 2025
Six unions representing thousands of federal employees fought against President Donald Trump's executive order looking to cease collective bargaining at several agencies with "national security" focuses, telling a California federal court that the order violates the First and Fifth amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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April 04, 2025
A split National Labor Relations Board properly ruled that a Montana internet service provider illegally withheld information from a union about whether its parent company's employees were performing bargaining unit employees' work, NLRB prosecutors argued Friday, asking the D.C. Circuit to enforce the board's ruling.
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April 04, 2025
The Manhattan federal judge who called the Trump administration's move to shutter Voice of America a "classic case" of arbitrary policymaking on Friday ordered the case transferred to D.C. federal court, but said his restraining order remains in effect.
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April 04, 2025
Fast-growing Pierson Ferdinand LLP has announced a labor and employment attorney with more than 40 years of experience has joined the firm from Fox Rothschild LLP as a partner based in New York and Princeton, New Jersey.
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April 04, 2025
A Teamsters pension fund erred when it determined that a concrete company owed $23 million for withdrawing from the plan, an Illinois federal judge ruled, saying an arbitrator needs to reassess the calculation and give the employer proper credit for other payments made.
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April 04, 2025
Two unions were the prevailing parties in the state claims in a suit by hotel operators accusing them of interfering in a SeaWorld development project, a California federal judge said, ruling that they can recover attorney fees and costs.
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April 03, 2025
A split Fifth Circuit panel won't enforce the National Labor Relations Board's holding that a public transit operator illegally snubbed a union, saying the board should have processed the company's challenge to an agency judge's ruling even though it filed its exceptions brief a day late.
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April 03, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board asked the D.C. Circuit to uphold the NLRB's order finding a Vermont software development company illegally fired four employees for their actions involving a salary spreadsheet, defending remedies of reinstatement and compensation for pecuniary harms.
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April 03, 2025
The Seventh Circuit appeared Thursday to lean against a grocery store's effort to lower its $22.5 million union pension bill, with multiple judges challenging the employer's argument that stores sold months before a complete fund withdrawal should be excluded from its annual payment calculation.
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April 03, 2025
Kroger Co. and Albertsons urged a Colorado federal judge to toss a worker's proposed class action claiming the grocers violated state antitrust law with a no-poach agreement, arguing Thursday that the claims are exclusively governed by federal labor law.
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April 03, 2025
The Trump administration called on Mexico to investigate "credible" allegations of worker rights violations at a Mexico City auto parts plant Thursday, marking the Trump administration's first use of a labor-specific enforcement tool first implemented five years ago.
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April 03, 2025
The Fifth Circuit must not defer to the National Labor Relations Board's determination that Nexstar Media Inc. shift leads in Denver are statutory employees who can unionize, the company contended, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright opinion to argue the NLRB's decisions "deserve no deference."
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April 03, 2025
A network of dialysis centers in the Bay Area violated federal labor law by withholding its unionizing workers' raises, firing a nurse for her organizing activity and implicitly threatening to close a center if workers unionized, among other conduct, a National Labor Relations Board judge has found.