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July 11, 2024
A United Food and Commercial Workers local can continue litigating its claim that Kaiser Permanente affiliates violated provisions in labor contracts guaranteeing adequate staffing, a Colorado federal judge ruled, saying there are outstanding issues to be resolved at trial.
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July 11, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday urged the Eighth Circuit to affirm a ruling that Home Depot illegally pushed out a worker who refused to remove the letters "BLM" from their apron, saying federal labor law protected the worker's protest because it echoed other discrimination complaints.
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July 11, 2024
Amateurism can't shield the NCAA from student-athletes' Fair Labor Standards Act claims, the Third Circuit ruled Thursday, laying out a test to sort out whether athletes can be considered employees under the federal statute.
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July 11, 2024
The U.S. Senate confirmed an attorney with years of experience in the federal government and a federal employees union to a seat on the Federal Labor Relations Authority, returning the agency to a full slate of members after a yearlong vacancy.
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July 11, 2024
A group of Oregon home healthcare and hospice workers may vote on representation by a union that already represents their co-workers, provided that the so-called professional employees in the bargaining unit also vote yes on them joining, a National Labor Relations Board official has said.
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July 11, 2024
President Joe Biden on Thursday tapped an attorney who most recently served as of counsel at Cohen Weiss & Simon LLP to head the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
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July 11, 2024
John "Johnny Doc" Dougherty, the former business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 in Philadelphia, was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison after being convicted of bribing a city councilman and stealing over $500,000 from the union.
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July 11, 2024
The Third Circuit upheld a lower court's nix of an arbitration award of more than $427,000 against a painting company over a union pension fund's withdrawal liability claims, determining Thursday that the fund waited too long to request payment under federal benefits law.
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July 11, 2024
The Biden administration on Thursday unveiled its latest initiative to bolster domestic automotive production by offering nearly $2 billion in grants to convert 11 auto manufacturing and assembly facilities that have been shuttered or are at risk of closing to build electric vehicles and related components.
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July 10, 2024
A software engineer terminated by Twitter, now known as X Corp., was a supervisor when she tweeted that workers should let Elon Musk fire them for working remotely and thus can't challenge her termination as an employee, a National Labor Relations Board judge found on Tuesday.
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July 10, 2024
Republican leaders of major congressional committees Wednesday demanded details from dozens of agencies on policies suddenly shrouded in uncertainty after U.S. Supreme Court conservatives overturned the so-called Chevron doctrine, which for 40 years gave regulators flexibility in rulemaking and advantages in related litigation.
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July 10, 2024
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday blocked a National Labor Relations Board suit accusing SpaceX of suppressing workers' rights while he weighs the rocket maker's claims that the prosecution is unconstitutional, according to a docket notice.
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July 10, 2024
An Arizona federal judge cleared an electric car manufacturer to move forward with the discovery process in an injunction dispute with the National Labor Relations Board, holding that the company can request some but not all of its workers' communications with union representatives.
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July 10, 2024
Starbucks fought an agency judge's ruling over the termination of a union supporter in Michigan with claims that the National Labor Relations Board's structure violates the U.S. Constitution, challenging removal protections for board members and administrative law judges.
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July 10, 2024
The Third Circuit on Wednesday issued a rare opinion declining to enforce a union's arbitration win, saying a Teamsters unit waited too long to challenge a cemetery operator's read of their new contract's raise language.
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July 10, 2024
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette violated federal labor law by pursuing proposals in contract negotiations that would tread on its advertising department workers' rights, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, issuing a bargaining order against the newspaper.
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July 10, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board must reconsider its decision changing the analysis of whether worker outbursts are protected under federal labor law, the Fifth Circuit ruled, finding the board violated a company's due process rights by not hearing its arguments prior to the precedent shift.
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July 10, 2024
One of two security and law enforcement unions embroiled in defamation suits in Michigan federal court has informed the court that it has filed for bankruptcy in Pennsylvania, pausing the claims against it a week before trial.
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July 10, 2024
Keurig Dr. Pepper has been accused in Illinois state court of sending mass anti-union text messages to the personal cellphone numbers of its factory workers, in violation of their privacy.
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July 10, 2024
A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Wednesday he would schedule a hearing in August to resolve competing motions for summary judgment on Yellow Corp.'s objection to several pension plans' claims for more than $6 billion in retirement-fund withdrawal liability.
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July 09, 2024
The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive a putative class action by Kalitta Air pilots who were fired over their refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccine, finding that the Railway Labor Act precludes the court from hearing their failure-to-accommodate and disability discrimination claims, which must be resolved through arbitration instead.
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July 09, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board ordered Trader Joe's on Tuesday to rehire a worker who was fired after raising concerns about COVID-19 safety, benefits and other issues, affirming a judge's ruling that the company acted to rid itself of a "squeaky wheel" and not because co-workers complained about her.
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July 09, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board must explain why it applied one legal test over another when analyzing whether a union representation election at a Chicago cannabis dispensary was fair, the D.C. Circuit said Tuesday, sending the dispensary's challenge to union certification back to the board.
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July 09, 2024
An arbitration award that required a California tribe to comply with a union authorization card check process at a casino should be nixed, the tribe has told a federal judge, arguing a tribal ordinance mapping out a procedure for a secret ballot election must be followed instead.
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July 09, 2024
An electric car manufacturer is overreaching by soliciting communications between a union and its workers in an injunction dispute with a National Labor Relations Board official, the agency told an Arizona federal judge, asking her to deny the company's request for third-party document production.