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June 10, 2024
Regional offices of the National Labor Relations Board "were not consistently complying" with procedures for mail-ballot elections, an agency watchdog report found, highlighting lapses in documenting details of elections conducted by mail and a lack of internal controls tailored to mail ballots.
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June 10, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law multiple times at cafes near Phoenix where union organizing efforts with Workers United were brewing, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, recommending an order to make the coffee chain post a video recording of a reading notice about employees' rights.
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June 10, 2024
A Texas federal judge has vacated an arbitration award ordering a chemical and ammunition manufacturer to rehire an employee who it accused of lying about receiving confidential information from a union steward, finding the award didn't draw its essence from the union contract.
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June 10, 2024
An experienced labor and employment attorney has jumped from Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC to Cozen O'Connor, continuing recent growth in the firm's New York office.
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June 10, 2024
A New Jersey federal judge rejected UPS' request to toss claims that the delivery company should pay warehouse workers for the time they spent undergoing security screenings before their shifts started, court records show.
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June 07, 2024
An Ohio state appeals court said five public school employees cannot hash out their claims over unauthorized union dues deductions in court because they draw from a collective bargaining agreement and therefore must be handled administratively.
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June 07, 2024
An Illinois federal judge declined to narrow a prior order letting Starbucks subpoena workers to boost its defense against a National Labor Relations Board injunction bid, saying a recent Second Circuit decision faulting the scope of a discovery grant in another Starbucks case doesn't apply.
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June 07, 2024
A hotel workers union urged a New York federal court to force a former operator of a shuttered Marriott hotel in Manhattan to pay $6 million in severance pay stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, saying an arbitrator's award in the union's favor must be enforced.
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June 07, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's offer to pause an in-house suit against SpaceX is "merely a ploy" to stave off a Fifth Circuit decision backing the company's challenge to the agency's constitutionality, the rocket maker told a Texas federal judge.
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June 07, 2024
In finding Friday that an order for several in-house Southwest Airlines attorneys to undergo "religious liberty training" should be permanently placed on hold while an appeal of a flight attendant's Title VII trial win is pending, the Fifth Circuit said the district court had likely exceeded "the scope of the court's civil-contempt authority."
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June 07, 2024
An Arizona electric car manufacturer quashed a nascent union organizing campaign by monitoring two leaders of the drive and then firing them when they persisted, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors claimed in a lawsuit that asks a federal judge to order the company to rehire the workers.
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June 07, 2024
Cozen O'Connor brought on a veteran employment lawyer from Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC in Boston, who comes with experience working in the public sector that he said allows him to help companies navigate any type of employment suit that comes their way.
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June 07, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential initial sign-off on a more than $3.6 million deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against freight carrier Oak Harbor Freight Lines Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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June 07, 2024
The Labor Management Relations Act doesn't preempt a driver's suit accusing two cold storage companies of wage and breaks violations, a California federal judge ruled, sending the case back to state court.
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June 06, 2024
The National Football League isn't to blame for a former football player's head trauma, the league told a South Carolina federal judge, arguing federal labor law preempts a negligence claim from a representative of the ex-player's estate.
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June 06, 2024
The Major League Baseball Players Association told a Puerto Rico federal judge that the sports agency linked to music superstar Bad Bunny has grossly overstated the impact it had on the business, arguing it is the agency's actions, not the association's "unreasonable sanctions," that caused injury.
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June 06, 2024
Wearing Black Lives Matter apparel at Whole Foods is protected under federal labor law, a group of workers argued to the National Labor Relations Board, saying employees wore BLM masks and attire on the job to push the company to confront racial bias in the workplace.
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June 06, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official has tossed a petition for a union representation election at a New Haven, Connecticut, nightclub, saying some of the workers the union sought to represent are security guards who cannot share a bargaining unit with nonguards.
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June 06, 2024
The Sixth Circuit upheld a Michigan construction company's defeat of a lawsuit seeking to compel an audit of company contributions to a union local's fringe benefit funds, saying the funds didn't have a valid contract with the company after a collective bargaining agreement expired.
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June 06, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law by sending baristas home for wearing union T-shirts at a Brooklyn cafe, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the company can't point to a dress code rule to excuse this behavior because it wasn't otherwise enforcing the rule in the region.
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June 05, 2024
An American Federation of Musicians local urged a New York federal court Wednesday to dismiss duty of fair representation claims from two orchestra musicians, arguing that the plaintiffs didn't raise allegations of "any plausible violation" of an arbitration award reinstating the duo.
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June 05, 2024
The Third Circuit revived claims Wednesday accusing Hudson County, New Jersey; its department of corrections; and three county employees of retaliating against a corrections officer because of his union activity, saying a federal judge tossed the allegations too soon.
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June 05, 2024
A Michigan federal judge has tossed a Fiat Chrysler employee's sexual harassment and retaliation claims against the company over the alleged actions of her union steward, saying the worker hadn't responded to a court order.
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June 05, 2024
Boston federal prosecutors said Wednesday they are helping a union recover about $5.3 million stolen through a complex business email compromise scheme.
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June 05, 2024
A group of machinist craft employees at a Seattle ship repair facility can't break away from their union and affiliate with a Carpenters local, a National Labor Relations Board official ruled, saying the multi-craft bargaining unit that has represented the facility's employees since the 1970s should remain in place.