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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.
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May 24, 2024
A roofing manufacturer must arbitrate a United Steelworkers local's grievances over subcontracting notice requirements under the labor contract terms, a Texas federal magistrate judge ruled, tossing the company's argument that the parties' pact lacks the payment remedy that the union requested.
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May 24, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for the potential final approval of a $2 million deal in a wage and hour class action by Del Monte Foods Inc. plant workers. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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May 23, 2024
Home Depot called on the Eighth Circuit to throw out a National Labor Relations Board decision finding the company illegally told a worker not to display a Black Lives Matter slogan on their apron, arguing that the board's stance violates the company's First Amendment rights.
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May 23, 2024
A company that fuels airplanes at John F. Kennedy International Airport sued its workers' union in New York federal court Thursday, seeking a temporary restraining order blocking the union from carrying out its stated intention to go on strike Friday.
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May 23, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board is "drowning" as a rise in cases and increased "litigiousness" of parties tax the agency's decimated workforce, Chairman Lauren McFerran said Thursday at New York University School of Law's annual labor conference.
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May 23, 2024
The United Auto Workers' loss in a union representation election at two Alabama Mercedes-Benz plants could slow the pace of the union's campaign to organize non-union automakers in the South and illustrates the challenges inherent to such a project, experts said.
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May 23, 2024
Two trustees of an embattled union life insurance fund have asked an Illinois federal judge to toss the U.S. Department of Labor's claims that they let a fellow trustee siphon about $2.6 million and amended the fund's rules to shield themselves from liability.
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May 23, 2024
A workers advocacy group in Missouri accused Amazon of violating federal labor law by using "intrusive algorithms" to watch employees' organizing activities, according to an unfair labor practice charge obtained by Law360 on Thursday, advancing a legal theory from the National Labor Relations Board's top prosecutor.
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May 23, 2024
President Joe Biden on Thursday announced he intends to renominate Lauren McFerran to continue serving as chair of the National Labor Relations Board, while also tapping a Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner to fill a long-vacant Republican seat on the board.
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May 23, 2024
A Washington federal judge tossed a suit from two Christian flight attendants who said they were illegally fired by Alaska Airlines and abandoned by their labor union for opposing the airline's support for LGBTQ+ rights, ruling there's no proof unlawful bias cost them their jobs.
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May 23, 2024
Workers at a dine-in movie theater near Denver can have an election to decide whether they want the Communications Workers of America to represent them, a National Labor Relations Board regional director determined, nixing the company's bid to expand the bargaining unit to other facilities.
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May 22, 2024
A four-justice concurrence to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's unique funding scheme last week carries implications for other cases pending before the court that challenge the so-called administrative state, or the permanent cadre of regulatory agencies and career government enforcers who hold sway over vast swaths of American economic life.
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May 22, 2024
A union healthcare plan violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act when it stopped working with a Bay Area insulation company whose union contract expired, a new proposed class action filed in California federal court alleges.
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May 22, 2024
Democrats on a U.S. House of Representatives labor subcommittee called their Republican counterparts out for maintaining a busy calendar of anti-union hearings Wednesday during the committee's fifth such inquest in this session of Congress.
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May 22, 2024
A Michigan federal judge can't enforce an arbitration award requiring the rehire of a fired worker, a steel manufacturer argued Wednesday, claiming the arbitration panel went beyond the parties' collective bargaining agreement in ordering reinstatement.
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May 22, 2024
Workers at three Philadelphia coffee shops can vote on representation by a Service Employees International Union affiliate, a National Labor Relations Board official has ruled, shooting down the employer's argument that workers at two of the stores have different working conditions from those at the third location.
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May 22, 2024
Northeastern University in Boston violated federal labor law by refusing to bargain with a union representing campus police sergeants and detectives, the National Labor Relations Board concluded, potentially teeing up a challenge from the university to test the union's certification.