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July 19, 2024
A status conference is scheduled this week in the National Labor Relations Board's recently revived suit seeking an injunction barring Starbucks from violating federal labor law at stores across the country.
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July 18, 2024
Teamsters President Sean O'Brien's speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention has sparked controversy within the union and broader labor movement as organized labor kicks into gear for a prominent role in the upcoming presidential election.
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July 18, 2024
The Fifth Circuit should block claims that SpaceX violated labor law from proceeding before the National Labor Relations Board because the company has a good shot at winning its constitutional challenge to the agency's structure, SpaceX argued.
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July 18, 2024
The Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday that a former CSX Transporation Inc. engineer waited too long to try to revive his wrongful termination suit stemming from his firing over an online post he made about a fatal train accident.
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July 18, 2024
Barnes & Noble College Booksellers LLC and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union have resolved unfair labor practice claims at a New Jersey store, according to a copy of the settlement obtained by Law360, with the company agreeing to training for management on federal labor law.
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July 18, 2024
An International Longshoremen's Association local violated federal labor law by threatening workers who take part in National Labor Relations Board proceedings, an agency judge determined, saying the union's president unlawfully stated that people who file unfair labor practice claims "would be dealt with."
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July 18, 2024
Allowing the United Auto Workers to withhold information from the court-appointed monitor overseeing its cleanup from days of corruption and embezzlement would undermine the purpose of the monitorship, the federal government and the monitor told a Michigan federal judge, asking him to deny the union's bid to shield documents.
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July 18, 2024
A group of unionized janitors who used to work in the New York City offices of social media company X have settled a suit alleging the company failed to comply with a city law requiring it to keep the janitors on for 90 days after terminating their contract.
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July 17, 2024
New York City's Public Advocate hit the Metropolitan Transportation Authority with a proposed state court class action Wednesday aimed at reversing bus service cuts implemented after Gov. Kathy Hochul abruptly canceled plans for congestion pricing, slashing billions in anticipated revenue for the MTA.
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July 17, 2024
A Broadway producer accusing an actor and stage workers union of unlawfully blacklisting him following a labor dispute over a musical has asked the Second Circuit for another chance to revive the claims.
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July 17, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official properly tossed a union's petition to represent Massachusetts Institute of Technology's graduate fellows, correctly finding that the fellows can't unionize because they don't perform work for the university in exchange for compensation, the NLRB ruled Wednesday.
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July 17, 2024
A unionized California strip club may defend against a claim that it breached a settlement agreement by reopening with changed operations after the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday denied prosecutors' bid for a default judgment.
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July 17, 2024
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a National Labor Relations Board decision Wednesday concluding that an Oregon television station owned by Nexstar violated federal labor law, with the appellate panel supporting make-whole relief for employee negotiators and an order to bargain.
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July 17, 2024
Two workers who were fired after backing a union organizing effort can continue seeking punitive and compensatory damages against a railroad, a Colorado federal district court ruled, supporting a magistrate judge's conclusion that blocking the damages request would "eliminate a significant deterrent."
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July 17, 2024
Bankrupt trucking firm Yellow Corp. hit back at a motion for summary judgment sought by multiple pension funds including Central States Pension Fund, telling a Delaware bankruptcy court that it has no withdrawal liability for backing out of a multistate pension fund for truckers.
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July 17, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board official who won reinstatement for the Memphis 7 — seven worker-organizers fired from a Tennessee Starbucks — must go back to the drawing board now that the U.S. Supreme Court used the case to change the standard for dispensing injunctions, the Sixth Circuit ruled Wednesday.
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July 17, 2024
Labor and employment law firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Wednesday that it has added a partner in Miami with decades of experience who joined from Fox Rothschild LLP.
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July 17, 2024
The Seventh Circuit "owes no deference" to the National Labor Relations Board's determinations about violations of federal labor law, Amazon told the appeals court, fighting the board's conclusion that the company unlawfully maintained an off-duty access rule.
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July 16, 2024
A refugee support nonprofit in Pittsburgh settled the United Steelworkers' unfair labor practice claims over terminations and the denial of wage hikes, according to a copy of the settlement obtained by Law360 on Tuesday, with the organization agreeing to shell out more than $198,000 as part of the deal.
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July 16, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors should continue seeking injunctions in federal court while pursuing unfair labor practice litigation in administrative court despite the U.S. Supreme Court making it harder to obtain those injunctions, the agency's general counsel said in a memo issued Tuesday.
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July 16, 2024
The Seventh Circuit declined Tuesday to reinstate a lawsuit from a Black worker accusing a manufacturing company of firing him in retaliation for complaining about race discrimination with his union, saying there's no error in the lower court's decision despite it relying on his former plant manager's flubbed testimony.
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July 16, 2024
The trustees of two union health plans said Elevance Health Inc. and its subsidiaries violated federal benefits law when they overpaid themselves for administrative services and medical providers for patient care, arguing the insurer had significant control over the management of the plans and their assets.
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July 16, 2024
A Texas-based energy company told a Galveston federal judge Tuesday that parties are afforded "certain rights not to face trial," pushing the court to halt an upcoming National Labor Relations Board administrative proceeding against the company on the basis that the board's process is unconstitutionally structured.
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July 16, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's finding that Google and its contractor Cognizant are joint employers is "riddled with … flaws," the two companies argued to the D.C. Circuit, challenging the board's application of its 2020 rule when reviewing control over supervision and benefits.
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July 16, 2024
Workers at a Jollibee fast-food restaurant in Jersey City, New Jersey, can vote on representation by an independent union, a National Labor Relations Board official found, saying Jollibee Workers United qualifies as a labor organization under federal labor law.