Two recycling companies in Pennsylvania are a single employer that violated federal labor law by barring workers from talking among themselves about wages, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the supervisor who made unlawful statements about compensation talk was a statutory supervisor.
A D.C. Circuit panel on Tuesday questioned whether nearly century-old U.S. Supreme Court protections for some federal agency officials cover members of the Merit Systems Protection Board and National Labor Relations Board.
A divided Ninth Circuit panel on Monday denied President Donald Trump's administration an immediate administrative stay of a California district court order requiring reinstatement of some probationary federal workers fired from six agencies, the majority saying a pause "would disrupt the status quo and turn it on its head."
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Two recycling companies in Pennsylvania are a single employer that violated federal labor law by barring workers from talking among themselves about wages, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the supervisor who made unlawful statements about compensation talk was a statutory supervisor.
A D.C. Circuit panel on Tuesday questioned whether nearly century-old U.S. Supreme Court protections for some federal agency officials cover members of the Merit Systems Protection Board and National Labor Relations Board.
A divided Ninth Circuit panel on Monday denied President Donald Trump's administration an immediate administrative stay of a California district court order requiring reinstatement of some probationary federal workers fired from six agencies, the majority saying a pause "would disrupt the status quo and turn it on its head."
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March 20, 2025
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would be barred from idling its workforce under a narrowed injunction bid filed Wednesday in Washington, D.C., federal court, where the agency's employee union is squaring off with the Trump administration.
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March 20, 2025
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce along with other business groups told the Eleventh Circuit that the National Labor Relations Board's order deeming so-called captive audience meetings unlawful flouts the First Amendment, arguing the board's decision targets an employer's speech about unions.
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March 20, 2025
A New Jersey waste management company must hold a new union representation election after it tainted the first vote by creating the impression that workers wouldn't get a raise if they unionized, the Third Circuit has ruled, upholding a National Labor Relations Board decision.
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March 19, 2025
An elevator constructors union that serves New York and New Jersey is fighting a former member's bid to be reinstated, telling a New York federal judge that the "reprehensible" behavior that led to the member's dismissal would likely recur if he were brought back.
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March 19, 2025
A roofers union, its benefit funds and trustees accused a Long Island contractor of failing to pay at least $1.5 million in contributions, telling a New York federal judge that the company breached its collective bargaining agreement.
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March 19, 2025
Texas Supreme Court justices seemed wary of Boeing Co.'s argument that a pilot's union can't sue over lost compensation after a pair of deadly crashes involving the company's 737 Max airplanes, saying during oral arguments Wednesday it was seemingly making "policy arguments for Congress."
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March 19, 2025
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2025 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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March 19, 2025
A UPS manager who accused an Indianapolis Teamsters local of falsely painting him as racist can sue the union even though he isn't a member, he argued in Indiana federal court, saying Title VII of the Civil Rights Act doesn't require people to be union members to sue unions.
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March 18, 2025
The Trump administration Tuesday told Judge William Alsup that fired federal probationary employees are being put on administrative leave as part of the reinstatement process he ordered and not to "skirt" the preliminary injunction, after the judge said Monday putting the workers on leave isn't permissible under his order.
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March 18, 2025
A Teamsters local can't escape a delivery driver's claims that the union breached its fiduciary duty by denying him early retirement benefits, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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March 18, 2025
DraftKings has failed to convince a Pennsylvania federal judge to toss a lawsuit against it claiming the company unlawfully used images of MLB players for promotional purposes, as the court rejected the argument that using the pictures was protected speech.
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March 18, 2025
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business advocacy groups encouraged the Ninth Circuit to rethink its split enforcement of the NLRB's expanded relief against Macy's for an unlawful lockout, arguing the board can't issue so-called Thryv remedies under federal labor law and the U.S. Constitution.
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March 18, 2025
Maynard Nexsen PC has brought a 5-lawyer team from labor and employment firm Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP to its Los Angeles office, bringing on a team that is experienced in management-side employment law and can converse in six languages.
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March 18, 2025
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bargained in bad faith with its reporters' union by insisting on unilateral control over their job terms based on vague concerns about the journalism industry, the union told the Third Circuit, urging a panel to enforce a National Labor Relations Board ruling.
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March 18, 2025
The Office of Personnel Management has asked federal agencies to detail how much they have spent on bargaining with the unions that represent their workers, launching a probe of potentially "substantial" costs as the Trump administration reexamines the relationship between the government and federal unions.
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March 18, 2025
Starbucks violated the National Labor Relations Act once during Workers United's organizing drive at a Missouri store, but the violation wasn't severe enough to have caused the union's loss in a representation election, a National Labor Relations Board judge said, rejecting board prosecutors' request for a bargaining order.
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March 17, 2025
A Maryland federal judge extended her temporary restraining order blocking the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Office of Personnel Management from turning over sensitive personal information on federal employees to Department of Government Efficiency workers Monday, giving herself another week to rule on the workers' preliminary injunction request.
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March 17, 2025
A coalition of states and the NCAA asked a Tennessee federal judge to sign off Monday on a settlement that seeks to resolve antitrust litigation over the NCAA's ban on athlete recruits' name, image and likeness compensation, revealing new details of the deal, including a permanent bar on future policies.
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March 17, 2025
California has urged a federal judge to reject a business-led challenge to a new state law that prohibits employers from holding so-called captive audience meetings, saying the law does not violate the First Amendment because it targets conduct, not speech.
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March 17, 2025
An apprenticeship program called on a New Jersey federal judge to nix hostile work environment and race bias allegations from a former participant, saying the worker had not presented enough evidence to prove the training organization committed discrimination.
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March 17, 2025
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have pulled a novel suit accusing immigrant detention center operator GEO Group of violating federal labor law by punishing detainees for protesting their working conditions.
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March 17, 2025
American Airlines can ship to Texas a proposed class action alleging the company used outdated statistics to calculate retirees' pension payments, an Illinois federal judge ruled, finding the worker leading the case was one of the only things tying the suit to Illinois.
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March 17, 2025
The official committee of unsecured creditors for troubled trucking company Yellow Corp. told a Delaware bankruptcy judge Monday the group would push its own version of a Chapter 11 proposal if the debtor cannot reach a global settlement with its creditors.
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March 17, 2025
A bargaining unit representing maintenance workers for the city of Pittsburgh claims an amendment to the city charter requiring them to live within city limits should be thrown out, pointing to a court ruling that tossed a similar requirement for Pittsburgh police officers.
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March 17, 2025
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors are no longer taking the stance that certain noncompete agreements are illegal, the board's acting general counsel has indicated in a new brief in an unfair labor practice case.