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May 10, 2024
A Washington federal judge granted a win Friday to a construction company in a Black ex-worker's lawsuit, saying he failed to show he was forced to quit because he complained about his manager's racist comments and not because of the 18 safety warnings he received.
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May 10, 2024
An Illinois sprinkler installer committed a barrage of labor violations around its workers' overwhelming vote to unionize in late 2022, including by withholding Christmas turkeys and firing 10 perceived union backers in a false shutdown, a National Labor Relations Board judge said.
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May 10, 2024
A settlement is likely coming in a proposed class action filed by Parsec Inc. employees against the National Production Workers Union in Illinois federal court, signaling an end to claims that the rail transportation company's withdrawal from a collective bargaining agreement should have triggered the payout of severance and retirement funds.
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May 10, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit is scheduled to consider a former Ramapo, New York, police officer's lawsuit claiming the town discriminated against her on the basis of her race and gender when it did not assign her a light duty assignment after she returned to the job from an injury. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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May 10, 2024
The company formerly known as Kellogg Co. breached its union contract with a Bakery Confectionery Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers local by refusing to take two long-running wage grievances to arbitration, the union told a Michigan federal court Friday.
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May 10, 2024
A tape manufacturer's decision to punish two Michigan employees for not adequately cleaning their work areas was motivated by animus toward their actions as a union steward and a union committee member, the Sixth Circuit found, upholding a National Labor Relations Board ruling.
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May 10, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a former police chief's First Amendment case. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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May 09, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors accused Tesla of having an illegal policy to dissuade workers from unionizing at its Buffalo, New York, manufacturing plant, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by Law360 on Thursday, with agency prosecutors seeking a nationwide posting of workers' rights.
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May 09, 2024
A medical group and a Pacific Northwest healthcare system are joint employers, a National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded, greenlighting an election among medical providers to vote on representation by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists.
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May 09, 2024
Dancers in the Miami City Ballet can vote on representation by the American Guild of Musical Artists, a National Labor Relations Board official held, rejecting the ballet's claim that an existing labor contract forecloses the possibility of a union election.
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May 09, 2024
As protests over the Israel-Hamas war spill into the workplace, workers have accused their employers of suppressing their labor rights in a test of the National Labor Relations Act's nuanced protections for political advocacy.
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May 09, 2024
A New York federal judge hearing a dispute over a leadership election at the Amazon Labor Union on Thursday ordered Amazon to turn over an employee mailing list to a neutral monitor, saying the information is necessary to notify members of the coming vote.
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May 09, 2024
A Sixth Circuit panel questioned on Thursday a National Labor Relations Board decision finding a Michigan nursing home violated federal labor law with its handling of temporary hazard pay and staffing during the COVID-19 pandemic, with judges appearing skeptical the company had to bargain over the changes.
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May 09, 2024
A New Jersey concrete manufacturer illegally told striking employees they could return to work only if they resigned from their Teamsters local, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, rejecting the company's argument that it shouldn't face a labor law violation because it rescinded the statement.
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May 09, 2024
Starbucks committed "serious and widespread unfair labor practices" at two stores in Cleveland where union organizing campaigns were underway, a National Labor Relations Board judge concluded, finding the coffee chain must read a notice to workers about their rights.
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May 09, 2024
Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su on Thursday defended President Joe Biden's U.S. Department of Labor budget, telling a Senate panel that such funding is necessary to recover workers' stolen wages and fight unlawful child labor, among other priorities.
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May 08, 2024
A split National Labor Relations Board panel said Wednesday that George Washington University Hospital sabotaged union negotiations with unworkable proposals, reasserting precedent that employers bargain in bad faith by insisting on contract provisions that effectively nullify unions.
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May 08, 2024
Employers contesting National Labor Relations Board decisions are preparing arguments in anticipation of looming U.S. Supreme Court rulings that could overhaul the deference administrative agencies receive from federal courts under a landmark doctrine known as Chevron deference, though experts say it's unclear how courts will handle the current uncertainty.
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May 08, 2024
A Colorado county sheriff whose staff is unionizing has sued the state over the 2023 law that gave his workers the right to organize, seeking a declaration that the law does not apply to his office.
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May 08, 2024
Apple violated federal labor law by denying a Communications Workers of America supporter's requests for leave at a New Jersey store, according to an unfair labor practice charge obtained by Law360 on Wednesday, ahead of a union representation election set to begin at the end of this week.
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May 08, 2024
A Starbucks manager unlawfully threatened a worker while discussing a Workers United organizing campaign at a Wisconsin cafe, a divided National Labor Relations Board determined, with the board's lone Republican finding what the manager said didn't rise to the level of a threat or interrogation.
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May 08, 2024
A farmworkers union in Washington state is challenging rules the U.S. Department of Labor introduced in 2022 that the union said are depressing farmworkers' wages.
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May 08, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board found an agency judge wrongly denied Amazon's request for an in-person hearing over an unfair labor practice complaint alleging the company illegally disciplined a worker, saying there weren't "compelling circumstances" to warrant a remote proceeding.
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May 07, 2024
Almost three-quarters of U.S. employers share great concern over the impact the U.S. Department of Labor's and the National Labor Relations Board's enforcement actions will have on their businesses, according to a survey Littler Mendelson PC released Wednesday.
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May 07, 2024
The D.C. Circuit rejected on Tuesday a Puerto Rico hospital's request for an en banc rehearing over the appeals court's decision to affirm the National Labor Relations Board's conclusions that the hospital illegally withdrew a union's recognition after becoming a successor employer.