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October 17, 2025
Federal labor law entitles a pilot to arbitrate a firing grievance his Teamsters local declined to pursue, an Alaska federal judge said, rejecting the union's argument that its collective bargaining agreement with a cargo company precluded his individual arbitration bid.
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October 17, 2025
A Black electrical worker's claim that he was illegally pushed out of his job for reporting race discrimination on the job should survive, but allegations he made against his union for not grieving his termination should be tossed, a Tennessee federal magistrate judge has recommended.
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October 17, 2025
Workers at an Indianapolis casino went on strike to demand that their employer recognize a Teamsters unit as their representative Friday, the same day they were originally scheduled to vote in a National Labor Relations Board election before the federal government shut down.
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October 17, 2025
A Black employee of a General Motors subsidiary can't support her lawsuit alleging the company did nothing to stop a white co-worker from stalking and harassing her, the company told a New York federal court Friday, arguing she failed to show the colleague's conduct was tied to race, not personal relations.
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October 17, 2025
An Illinois federal judge should compel a Chicagoland excavation company to pay a union scholarship fund about $180,000, the union argued, saying the judge should enforce a grievance committee's decision and not let the company wriggle out of paying by creating a nonunion alter ego.
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October 17, 2025
The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.
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October 17, 2025
The nation's two biggest dialysis providers are looking to get a price-fixing class action accusing them of carving up geographic markets tossed, telling a Colorado federal judge that similar pricing is a natural competitive outcome in a highly concentrated market like that for dialysis, not evidence of a conspiracy.
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October 17, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge has sent back to arbitration a wage-related dispute between a maintenance workers unit of the Teamsters and the company that operates greater Boston's commuter rail system, saying he recently found he has the authority to do so.
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October 17, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a former California state court executive officer's race discrimination case. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in that state.
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October 16, 2025
Three labor unions sued the Trump administration in New York federal court Thursday to stop a surveillance program they allege scours online activity for viewpoints the administration doesn't like and leverages the threat of immigration enforcement to coerce silence.
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October 16, 2025
A Georgia company that identifies as the largest supplier of library content, software and services to public and academic libraries in the U.S., terminated at least 300 employees without proper notice as part of a mass layoff without meeting a federal 60-day notice requirement, according to a proposed class action.
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October 16, 2025
The Senate labor committee's withholding of a vote on a National Labor Relations Board nominee has clouded the agency's timeline for gaining the quorum it needs to fully function, let alone the three-seat majority Republicans may need to rethink the precedents employers are itching for the board to shed.
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October 16, 2025
About 31,000 Kaiser Permanente workers represented by a nurses union are on strike in California, Hawaii and Oregon, planning to remain on the picket line through Sunday to fight for higher wages.
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October 16, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board claimed that newly enacted legislation to expand California's state labor board's powers was preempted by the National Labor Relations Act, in a complaint filed in California federal court.
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October 16, 2025
The Fifth Circuit stood by its decision to scuttle a contempt order mandating religious bias training for attorneys representing Southwest Airlines in a flight attendant's discrimination suit, but tweaked a May panel ruling to instruct a trial court to impose "narrowly tailored" sanctions.
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October 15, 2025
A Fifth Circuit panel affirmed a bargaining order issued by the National Labor Relations Board against Nexstar on Wednesday, rejecting the media company's attempt to shed an obligation to negotiate with a newly installed Communications Workers of America affiliate at two of its Denver television stations.
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October 15, 2025
A D.C. Circuit panel appeared torn Wednesday over where protected workplace activism in an employee workchat ended and fireable conduct began, in a case involving the termination of four employees from a Vermont software company over chat messages and a salary-sharing spreadsheet.
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October 15, 2025
Trustees for an International Association of Machinists pension fund urged the U.S. Supreme Court to back an appellate decision favoring the union in disputes with employers over pension plan liability, arguing federal benefits law gave a union arbitrator latitude on the methodology used to calculate the employers' withdrawal payments.
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October 15, 2025
Employers, AI developers and the government must center workers in the national conversation about the growth of the artificial intelligence industry, the AFL-CIO said Wednesday in a white paper, warning of risks that unchecked AI development poses to American workers.
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October 15, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court appears unlikely to get a chance to review a Fifth Circuit decision involving SpaceX that entitles the National Labor Relations Board's targets to enjoin the cases against them after the circuit court denied a union's bid to intervene to appeal the August ruling.
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October 15, 2025
A California federal judge on Wednesday granted a request from two unions representing thousands of federal workers to immediately block the Trump administration from laying them off during the government shutdown, saying she believes the plaintiffs will show that "what's being done here is both illegal and is in excess of authority."
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October 14, 2025
New York has defended its decision to empower a state labor board to oversee labor-management disputes and union elections when the National Labor Relations Board cannot, urging a New York federal judge to reject Amazon's challenge to the state's expansion of its Public Employment Relations Board's powers.
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October 14, 2025
A New York City hotel workers union cannot force a Manhattan hotel's landlord to come to the arbitration table in a dispute between the hotel and union, because the landlord is not part of the union contract, the landlord argued in a complaint filed in New York federal court.
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October 14, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away a hotel group's bid to deny First Amendment and government lobbying protections to certain union protests, rejecting a challenge to a Ninth Circuit ruling that excused a union's fight against a plan to redevelop a California hotel.
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October 14, 2025
An Eighth Circuit panel majority was right to find that a coalition of business groups can't challenge Minnesota's ban on mandatory anti-union meetings because officials aren't about to wield the law against those organizations, the state said in a filing Tuesday, urging the full court not to rehear the appeal.