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July 31, 2024
Massachusetts state court judges refereed a damages dispute between a real estate titan and a Big Four consultant, ruled in favor of allegedly underpaid healthcare workers and untangled a defamation suit over a labor executive's old social media posts, among other notable rulings during the month of July.
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July 31, 2024
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has announced a remediation plan at Volkswagen's largest manufacturing plant in Mexico under which the carmaker will reinstate eight workers with back pay and adopt a statement of neutrality toward employees associating with unions.
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July 31, 2024
The Fairness Center, a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based nonprofit legal services organization representing public-sector union employees against union officials, has expanded its leadership team this week by adding a former K&L Gates partner as a managing attorney.
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July 31, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board will review a regional director's decision to deem a Service Employees International Union local ineligible to represent a group of security guards, signaling its openness to considering whether security guards can vote on joining "mixed unions" of guards and nonguards.
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July 30, 2024
The Teamsters urged a California federal judge to dismiss for good a suit by United Airlines workers seeking the formula the union and the company have used to calculate semiannual raises, saying the amended complaint remains deficient and late.
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July 30, 2024
Two orchestra musicians defended their duty of fair representation claims against an American Federation of Musicians local and breach of labor contract allegations against the New York Philharmonic, urging a federal judge to find the defendants are on the hook for actions involving their suspensions.
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July 30, 2024
A Michigan federal judge has denied a utility construction and maintenance company's bid for an injunction against a joint labor-management committee supervising apprentice line workers in the company's antitrust suit, finding that the company is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its claim.
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July 30, 2024
A Los Angeles Fire Department captain and the union that represents him have sued the fire department and city in California federal court, accusing them of illegally reprimanding the captain for getting arrested alongside hundreds at a rally to support striking hotel workers.
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July 30, 2024
The Ninth Circuit revived a suit by carpenters alleging union pension trustees broke federal benefits law by investing retirement plan assets in dicey index funds that lost over $250 million in the 2020 market downturn, finding Tuesday that the workers' mismanagement claims should proceed to discovery.
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July 30, 2024
A Michigan hospital can't use the argument that National Labor Relations Board judges are unconstitutionally protected from presidential removal to tank a federal injunction bid linked to an agency case, a board official told a Michigan federal court.
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July 30, 2024
Starbucks did not violate federal labor law by issuing subpoenas to Workers United and a fired employee in a case involving a now-shuttered Manhattan cafe, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the coffee conglomerate's need for recordings and documents outweighed workers' interests.
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July 29, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor can shut California transit agencies out of a federal grant because of a conflict between a state pension law and a federal transit law, with the Ninth Circuit lifting a ban Monday on the agency denying grant applications because of that conflict.
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July 29, 2024
Rail giants have told the Eleventh Circuit that the Federal Railroad Administration overstepped with its new two-person train crew rule, saying rail labor costs would surge if "one of the most consequential rulemakings in the history of American railroading" were allowed to stand.
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July 29, 2024
A New York federal judge tossed a hospital worker's claims alleging a Service Employees International Union local failed to help address harassment she faced on the job, saying the claims against the union are preempted by federal law.
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July 29, 2024
Helicopter pilots represented by the Office and Professional Employees International Union fall under the Railway Labor Act, a Minnesota federal judge ruled Monday, tossing a hospital network's claim that the network isn't a common carrier because air transportation services don't make up most of its operations.
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July 29, 2024
A Texas federal judge blocked the National Labor Relations Board on Monday from prosecuting claims that an energy company unlawfully transferred and fired a worker who complained about safety issues, saying the agency's in-house judges are unconstitutionally insulated from removal.
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July 29, 2024
A Texas dentist's office violated federal labor law by firing a front desk employee who raised concerns about working conditions and bonuses, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, recommending that the worker be reinstated with back pay.
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July 29, 2024
An electric company illegally fired a worker who testified before a Texas Senate committee, a split National Labor Relations Board determined on remand from the D.C. Circuit, drawing a dissent from the board's lone Republican member who said the worker's remarks weren't linked to a labor dispute.
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July 29, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board has ordered a Kentucky hospital to recognize and bargain with a United Food and Commercial Workers local, agreeing with an agency judge that the hospital became a successor employer to the contractor Sodexo when it brought its food service operations in-house.
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July 26, 2024
Apple Inc. has signed onto the Biden administration's voluntary guidelines for "responsible" artificial intelligence innovation, joining the likes of Amazon.com Inc., Google LLC, Microsoft Corp. and a dozen other leading tech companies, the White House announced Friday.
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July 26, 2024
The NFL and the Denver Broncos are looking to sidestep a former team member's disability discrimination lawsuit claiming the league and team unfairly fined him $532,500 for using THC to treat an injury, arguing that the collective bargaining agreement they signed preempts state law.
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July 26, 2024
The regional airline SkyWest is fighting a union's claim that it violated the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act by failing to disclose how much money it gives an in-house employees' group, telling a Utah federal judge that only the U.S. secretary of labor can pursue such claims.
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July 26, 2024
A decertification election can proceed at a poultry company in Brooklyn, a National Labor Relations Board official concluded, saying the parties didn't have a signed successive contract when a worker filed the petition to oust an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local.
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July 26, 2024
The city of Shelton, Connecticut, fired a public works employee who joined a local Teamsters union after the mayor and other bosses pressured him to invoke a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court case that allows government employees to avoid paying mandatory union dues, according to a federal lawsuit.
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July 26, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board must rethink its decision finding a bargaining relationship between a union and construction contractor required the company to provide requested information, the Eighth Circuit ruled, finding there wasn't enough evidence to back up the board's conclusion over the relationship.