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October 11, 2024
The Fifth Circuit must permit the Teamsters Amazon National Negotiating Committee to intervene in Amazon's constitutional fight against the National Labor Relations Board, the committee argued, saying limits on the group's participation are detrimental to the workers it represents.
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October 11, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential final approval of a nearly $12 million deal to resolve a wage and hour class action against PNC Bank NA. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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October 10, 2024
An energy company asked the Fifth Circuit on Thursday to keep three disputes involving the structure of the National Labor Relations Board separate, arguing consolidation isn't the right call because the cases have different facts.
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October 10, 2024
The Southern Poverty Law Center did not violate federal labor law by changing executive assistants' job duties after they were added to a union as part of a settlement, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Thursday, calling the change necessary to the workers' union eligibility.
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October 10, 2024
The recent tentative wage agreement resolving a short lived strike at ports along the East and Gulf coasts has highlighted the role disputes over automation will play in upcoming contentious negotiations between a dockworkers union and shipping companies, the latest high-profile talks to center on the topic.
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October 10, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board trod on an Illinois plumbing and fire suppression company's due process rights when it ordered the company to resume recognizing a Plumbers local without a hearing on whether the company violated a settlement by withdrawing recognition, the company told the Seventh Circuit.
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October 10, 2024
Two Starbucks baristas trying to oust Workers United from stores in the Buffalo, New York, area told the D.C. Circuit to revive their challenge to removal protections for National Labor Relations Board members, arguing a lower court wrongly found the workers lacked standing.
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October 10, 2024
A Virginia trucking company's owner was exaggerating when he told his staff they would have gotten raises if it wasn't for a union "trying to steal money out of your paychecks," the company told the Fourth Circuit, saying the "hyperbolic" statement was protected by the First Amendment.
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October 10, 2024
As states across the country pass new laws for college athletes to earn money for their name, image and likeness, California lawmakers are encouraging universities there to make use of the considerable NIL provisions already on the books.
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October 09, 2024
Boeing has withdrawn its most recent wage offer to more than 33,000 employees who've been on strike for nearly a month, prolonging a labor standoff with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers that has grounded some of Boeing's key production lines to a halt.
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October 09, 2024
American Airlines was cleared of a customer service representative's overtime wages claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act for time spent logging in before his shift, an Arizona federal judge ruled Wednesday, finding the worker is exempt from overtime based on his job responsibilities.
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October 09, 2024
Workers at a Georgia painting, landscaping and carpentry business can vote on removing a painters union, a National Labor Relations Board official has ruled, rejecting the union's argument that the worker who filed the petition is a supervisor.
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October 09, 2024
An attorney known for becoming the first woman to head a major professional sports union in North America has decided to take the next step of her career at JAMS, the alternative dispute resolution service announced on Tuesday.
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October 09, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board exceeded its powers under federal labor law when ordering Trader Joe's to pay a fired employee in Houston for "pecuniary harms," the grocery chain argued, telling the Fifth Circuit to reject the board's remedy and conclusions that the worker who raised complaints was illegally terminated.
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October 09, 2024
Stellantis sued the United Auto Workers affiliate representing its Denver parts facility workers over their recent strike authorization vote, saying in its 11th lawsuit filed against the union in the past week that the UAW manufactured "sham grievances" to justify a mid-contract strike over a "promise" the company didn't make.
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October 08, 2024
A new memo by the National Labor Relations Board's top prosecutor aimed at curbing contracts that impose thousands of dollars in training or other costs on workers who quit or lose their jobs sets a tough test for employers that use so-called stay or pay agreements to retain workers.
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October 08, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official dismissed a National Right to Work Foundation-backed effort to oust the union from the first Trader Joe's store to successfully organize, holding Tuesday that the decertification petition can't proceed while the company stands accused of nearly two dozen federal labor law violations.
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October 08, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's three Democratic appointees denied Amazon's request for the trio to recuse themselves from an agency case about the firing of a worker in Staten Island, New York, saying Tuesday the e-commerce giant's constitutional claims would not have justified dismissing the four-year case.
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October 08, 2024
Yellow Corp. called on the Tenth Circuit to reverse a lower court's dismissal of the company's $137 million lawsuit against the Teamsters that claimed the union led the nearly 100-year-old company to shutter, saying the business wasn't required to exhaust the grievance process under a contract.
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October 08, 2024
The D.C. Circuit seemed reluctant Tuesday to reopen a retired government employee's discrimination suit against a federal employee union, with several judges suggesting that her claims don't belong in federal court.
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October 08, 2024
A Michigan federal judge should affirm an arbitration award that allowed a Coca-Cola distributor to reassign several tasks performed by its laborers to its drivers, the distributor said, saying its workers' union is wrong to argue that the award lacks a basis in the collective bargaining agreement.
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October 08, 2024
A lawyer for a governmental workers' union challenging the constitutionality of the federal debt limit told a First Circuit panel on Tuesday that a January default is a virtual certainty under existing law, and urged the judges to avoid trying to predict whether President Joe Biden and a lame-duck Congress might extend the ceiling.
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October 08, 2024
The Fifth Circuit gave a cool reception Tuesday to staffing companies challenging a 2022 memo the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel issued arguing so-called captive audience meetings violate federal labor law, with judges questioning whether the document is the type of board action subject to court review.
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October 08, 2024
Colorado isn't on the hook for claims by a union representing Southwest Airlines flight attendants related to a settlement between the state and airline about a sick leave law, a state court judge ruled, finding the union lacks standing to raise its allegations.
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October 08, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's Brooklyn office is seeking an injunction compelling a Long Island hospital's valet parking contractor to hire nearly three dozen workers employed by its predecessor, telling a New York federal judge that the contractor illegally refused to hire the workers because they were union-affiliated.