September 19, 2023
Steelworkers brought in to replace union workers during a lockout at Allegheny Technologies Inc. asked a Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday to sign off on a $4 million deal settling their suit seeking compensation for the extra time it took to transport them past picket lines, calling it an "excellent" outcome.
June 15, 2023
A class of more than 1,000 replacement steelworkers settled their 4-year-old suit against a staffing agency over compensation for time spent traveling across picket lines during a lockout at Allegheny Technologies' steel mills in Pennsylvania, according to a district court docket entry.
February 23, 2023
A group of replacement steelworkers secured its bid for class certification, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, following a magistrate judge's reconsideration of the dispute in light of recent Third Circuit precedent that raised the bar for evidence to prove commonality among employees.
October 24, 2022
A magistrate judge still recommended class certification for a group of replacement steelworkers who took over for unionized employees during an Allegheny Technologies Inc. lockout at Pennsylvania steel mills in light of a recent Third Circuit ruling over class commonality.
October 04, 2022
A staffing agency urged a federal judge to deny certification to a proposed class of replacement steelworkers who took over for unionized employees during a lockout at Allegheny Technologies Inc.'s Pennsylvania steel mills, arguing that a recent Third Circuit ruling over class commonality applies to the case.
September 06, 2022
A proposed class of steelworkers brought in to replace locked-out unions at Allegheny Technologies Inc.'s Pennsylvania mills told a federal court that their unpaid-wages case didn't suffer from the same defects that led the Third Circuit to decertify the class in an Americans With Disabilities Act suit against Ollie's Bargain Outlet in June.
August 02, 2022
A Pennsylvania judge instructed a magistrate judge to reconsider whether replacement steel plant workers were similarly situated to each other in light of recent Third Circuit precedence mandating closer scrutiny of similarities between putative class members.
May 10, 2022
A federal magistrate judge has recommended class certification for more than a thousand "strike staffers" in their lawsuit against a staffing agency seeking pay for the time they spent being shuttled across picket lines at Pennsylvania steel mills during a lockout, according to court filings Tuesday.
May 05, 2022
A Pennsylvania magistrate judge erred in recommending that a labor expert should testify in a lawsuit alleging a staffing agency failed to pay temporary workers overtime for time spent crossing a picket line, the company said, arguing in federal court that the expert's research isn't reliable.
April 21, 2022
A labor expert should be allowed to present her research in a lawsuit alleging a staffing agency failed to pay temporary workers for time spent crossing a picket line, a Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge recommended.