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October 25, 2024
Amazon pushed back on the National Labor Relations Board's claim at the Fifth Circuit that the company has not justified its suit seeking to block prosecutions against it on the grounds that the agency is unconstitutionally structured, arguing that facing unconstitutional proceedings is a harm courts can remedy.
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October 25, 2024
A sushi restaurant in Louisiana violated federal labor law when its attorney illegally questioned a fired employee about their testimony and accused the worker of attempting to obtain money from a National Labor Relations Board case, an agency judge determined, finding such a claim is "flatly absurd."
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October 25, 2024
A New Jersey federal judge won't block the National Labor Relations Board from adjudicating a case against a nursing home on the grounds that the agency is unconstitutionally structured, saying the company has not shown it would be irreparably harmed without an injunction.
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October 25, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for potential final approval of a $5.5 million settlement in a COVID-19 screening class action against Amazon. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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October 24, 2024
A Black production executive and her Latina colleague with decades of experience working on "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" have accused Sony Pictures Entertainment of race, gender and age discrimination as well as retaliation, according to complaints filed with both the National Labor Relations Board and California's Civil Rights Department.
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October 24, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday it is taking action to protect consumers from "unchecked surveillance" in the labor force, issuing guidance that warns companies to get consent from workers when using algorithmic hiring scores or other outside profiling data for employment purposes.
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October 24, 2024
A Las Vegas hospital can't block an SEIU local from handing out copies of a collective bargaining agreement that included statements like "respect us" on the cover, a Nevada federal judge concluded, saying there isn't evidence showing the language is "derogatory" under a provision of the parties' contract.
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October 24, 2024
If voters decide next month to make Alaska the 11th state to limit employers' ability to hold so-called captive audience meetings, experts said the ballot measure could provide a blueprint for other states looking to blunt the common antiunion tool.
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October 24, 2024
The Sixth Circuit refused Thursday to revive a General Electric employee's claims that he was passed over for promotions because he's in his 60s and his union failed to adequately represent him, finding younger candidates got higher scores on qualification tests that he couldn't pass.
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October 24, 2024
An International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees affiliate in St. Louis violated its collective bargaining agreement with an event management business when union members were involved in a physical fight with a metal band's road crew, the company alleged in federal court Thursday.
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October 24, 2024
Fourteen associate vice presidents at a Washington, D.C., marketing agency founded by Democratic political consultants can vote on joining the Communications Workers of America bargaining unit that represents their co-workers, a National Labor Relations Board official held, rejecting the agency's argument that they are union-ineligible supervisors.
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October 24, 2024
Trader Joe's must be ordered to reopen its Manhattan wine shop after shuttering the store in an alleged attempt to dampen union organizing, the National Labor Relations Board general counsel argued, saying a nearly 60-year-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent about partial closures governs the dispute.
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October 24, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor urged a Georgia federal court to uphold its new protections for foreign H-2A farmworkers, arguing that conservative-led states' bid to block its rule should fail because safeguarding foreign workers is key to ensuring better pay and conditions for American-born farmworkers.
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October 23, 2024
A majority of roughly 33,000 Boeing employees represented by the International Association of Machinists voted Wednesday to reject a new labor contract that included a 35% wage increase over four years, prolonging a nearly six-week strike that has hampered Boeing's production and cash flow.
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October 23, 2024
A Massachusetts Trader Joe's employee challenged a National Labor Relations Board regional director's decision to stop a decertification bid from going to an election while unfair labor practice claims are pending, saying Wednesday there wasn't a link between the allegations and a drop in union support.
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October 23, 2024
American workers are petitioning for union representation elections at twice the rate they were in 2021, with particularly large increases taking place in the Midwest, South and West, according to National Labor Relations Board data announced Wednesday.
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October 23, 2024
A Transport Workers Union affiliate urged a Colorado court to rethink its recent decision dismissing the union's claims against the state challenging a settlement with Southwest Airlines over a sick leave law, arguing the judge wrongly analyzed the statute's exemption for workers covered by a labor contract.
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October 23, 2024
A Texas bankruptcy judge Wednesday declined to order the new owner of former Steward Health Care hospitals in Massachusetts to take back changes to nurses' union contracts it assumed under his sale order, saying it wasn't up to him to make the call.
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October 23, 2024
A casino operator is challenging the National Labor Relations Board's authority to accuse the gambling powerhouse of employing unlawful tactics while fighting a union drive in Las Vegas, arguing in a new lawsuit in Nevada federal court that the NLRB's structure is unconstitutional.
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October 22, 2024
An AT&T salesperson backed by the anti-union National Right to Work Foundation accused the company and the Communications Workers of America of essentially creating a "company union," claiming in unfair labor practice charges announced Tuesday that expanding the CWA's presence among AT&T's so-called in-home experts violates labor law.
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October 22, 2024
A Hawaii healthcare network violated federal labor law by having a dress code policy that prevented workers from wearing union insignia, a National Labor Relations Board judge determined Tuesday, finding the company hadn't shown that union stickers affected operations.
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October 22, 2024
A public sector union told a Florida appeals court Tuesday that the state's Public Employees Relations Commission erred in holding the union to newly passed higher standards for re-registration before the law went into effect and upholding this decision would allow administrative agencies to simply ignore effective dates.
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October 22, 2024
The Women's National Basketball Players Association has opted out of its collective bargaining agreement with the WNBA and will negotiate a new deal following a season that saw massive jumps in viewers and attendance.
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October 22, 2024
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette can't stop the National Labor Relations Board's injunction request to make the newspaper bargain with three unions based on constitutional claims about the agency, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Tuesday, saying the court would not "ignore nearly a century's worth of settled jurisprudence."
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October 22, 2024
Beekeepers can vote to be represented by a retail workers union, a National Labor Relations Board official ruled, saying they perform agricultural work that federal labor law covers and agreed that the unit should cover only New York City and Boston.