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May 30, 2024
Ford Motor Co. and a union retirement plan have agreed to settle an employee's proposed class action claiming the company improperly calculated retirement benefits owed to workers who were injured on the job, according to a filing Thursday in Michigan federal court.
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May 30, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board judge was right to find that a school choice nonprofit illegally terminated a worker for saying she thought her supervisor was racist, agency prosecutors argued, saying the worker's remark was linked to protected concerted activity.
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May 30, 2024
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security employee told a Washington, D.C., federal judge that she has settled her suit against an International Guards Union of America local out of court, resolving allegations that the union improperly refused to give her information about how it calculated agency fees.
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May 29, 2024
President Joe Biden's renomination of Lauren McFerran to serve as the NLRB's chair and nomination of a Republican to fill an open seat could lead to the first full board since December 2022, but experts expect a fight in the Senate as the agency faces increased scrutiny and the election looms.
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May 29, 2024
International Longshore and Warehouse Union affiliates asked an Alaska federal judge to nix a barge company's request for an injunction to halt the union from arbitrating over a work preservation dispute, saying federal labor law doesn't allow the company to request this injunctive relief.
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May 29, 2024
A New York federal judge preserved a win for an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local Wednesday in a dispute with a power plant operator over who qualifies for a supplemental retirement benefit at the company, deeming the arbitrator's award reasonable.
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May 29, 2024
Former International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 business manager John Dougherty, who was convicted of bribery and embezzlement but escaped a third conviction when the jury deadlocked at his extortion trial, asked Wednesday that the prospective new trial date on the extortion charges be pushed back due to his attorney's scheduling conflict.
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May 29, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board has gone to federal court to enforce its subpoenas seeking a list of casino workers in a proposed bargaining unit, saying the refusals of a California tribe and a gaming company to provide the information are impeding an agency investigation.
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May 28, 2024
A construction company urged a Washington federal judge Tuesday to hand the business a win over its suit claiming a Teamsters affiliate violated project labor agreements, arguing the union encouraged drivers not to cross the picket lines during a strike.
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May 28, 2024
The D.C. Circuit has revived claims that a mail carriers union violated the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act by refusing to publish an officer candidate's campaign ads in its magazine, ruling Tuesday that a Washington, D.C., federal judge prematurely dismissed the suit.
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May 28, 2024
United Food and Commercial Workers members can't go to court to challenge the union's system of choosing convention delegates, the union and its top leaders argued to a D.C. federal judge, saying precedent doesn't mandate a proportional method for representation.
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May 28, 2024
A Washington state law aimed at preventing companies from holding mandatory anti-union meetings will take effect in June, and although the statute ostensibly targets labor matters, experts say the law should be on discrimination attorneys' radar due to its prohibitions on employers promoting political and religious views in the workplace.
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May 28, 2024
A divided National Labor Relations Board panel supported the dismissal of a worker's decertification petition at a radio station in upstate New York, with the board's lone Republican member calling for a hearing over a potential connection between the ouster bid and alleged unfair labor practices.
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May 28, 2024
A Virginia trucking company violated federal labor law when its owner told workers they would have gotten a raise if they weren't organizing, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, upholding an agency judge's findings.
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May 24, 2024
The Fifth Circuit on Friday vacated a National Labor Relations Board order finding an ad software company violated federal labor law by laying off workers without bargaining with a union, but did not weigh in on the legality of the expanded remedies that the board used the case to adopt.
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May 24, 2024
The Ninth Circuit on Friday said the U.S. Department of Labor can't let employers pay foreign farmworkers on H-2A visas a lower wage rate, rejecting the department's argument that the matter is moot because the previous harvest season is over.
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May 24, 2024
A cannabis product manufacturer in Washington state violated federal labor law by firing two supporters of a United Food and Commercial Workers local amid an organizing drive, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Friday, finding a rerun election should happen given the company's unfair labor practices.
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May 24, 2024
Law360 looks at four U.S. Supreme Court petitions filed in the past two weeks, including the FDA's request that the justices curb an increase in forum shopping at the Fifth Circuit, and two veterinarians who want the justices to allow plaintiffs to pursue antitrust claims for actions allegedly leading to the creation of a monopoly.
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May 24, 2024
The United Auto Workers on Friday accused Mercedes-Benz of violating workers' rights in a "relentless anti-union campaign" at two Alabama factories where the union recently lost an election, teeing up a possible bargaining order under a new standard for making employers that meddle in elections deal with unions.
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May 24, 2024
A Washington, D.C., federal judge erred by saying a government employee's discrimination suit against her union was essentially an unfair representation suit that belonged before the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told the D.C. Circuit on Friday, saying the case belongs in court.
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May 24, 2024
A cleaning company and its related entities should be required to compensate terminated workers with more than $22,000 stemming from an arbitration award, a New York federal magistrate judge recommended Friday, saying a Service Employees International Union affiliate showed the businesses were alter egos.
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May 24, 2024
On Thursday, a federal judge will consider a Buffalo, New York, Catholic school's bid to compel arbitration of claims brought by a former president who says she was retaliated against after she uncovered financial and academic issues at the school.
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May 24, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board asked a Texas federal judge to pause SpaceX's second challenge to the agency's constitutionality while another federal court deals with a persistent venue dispute in an earlier, nearly identical suit.
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May 24, 2024
The Biden administration asked the First Circuit to affirm a finding that a government workers' union lacks standing to challenge the debt ceiling's constitutionality and that its case was further rendered moot by passage of a deal to suspend the spending limit until January.
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May 24, 2024
The United States Postal Service waited too long to yield requested records to a union at two facilities in Michigan and improperly withheld records from the union at a third facility there, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding USPS violated federal labor law.