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August 14, 2024
Starbucks' growing pile of labor violations betrays the company's hostility toward workers' efforts to organize, the National Labor Relations Board said Wednesday, establishing a presumption that may hurt the company's defense against future claims of anti-union retaliation.
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August 14, 2024
An airplane fueling services company can't escape claims from a Teamsters benefit plan seeking more than $150,000 in unpaid contributions and other costs, a New York federal judge ruled, finding ambiguities with provisions in an agreement about contribution obligations preclude dismissal.
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August 14, 2024
An Ohio state appeals court declined to rule on a union's appeal in its suit over whether the state's prevailing wage law pertains to the construction of a college dormitory by a public university because the union sued in the wrong county, avoiding deciding a matter of first impression.
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August 14, 2024
A Massachusetts cannabis dispensary asked the National Labor Relations Board to reverse an agency official's decision rejecting the company's claim that a voter tainted a union representation election by sharing a selfie with his ballot, saying the incident raised questions about the secrecy of workers' ballots.
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August 14, 2024
The National Black Caucus of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters threw its support behind Kamala Harris' run for the presidency, despite the fact that the full union has yet to make an endorsement.
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August 14, 2024
A translation services provider legally fired a worker who made false statements, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying agency prosecutors' strategy of not calling the terminated employee as a hearing witness "backfired."
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August 14, 2024
A bill that would introduce licenses for hotels in New York City has the hospitality industry up in arms, and attorneys shared concerns with Law360 that the public safety messaging behind the proposal is a shield for measures that would drive up labor costs.
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August 13, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board correctly found that a quarry operator illegally issued layoff notices to union supporters, the agency argued to the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday, saying the company hadn't followed its practice of laying people off during cold weather.
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August 13, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official improperly paused objections to a union representation election at a Texas ambulance company because of a union's unfair labor practice allegations, the board ruled Tuesday, saying the official misapplied the board's election regulations and case-handling policy.
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August 13, 2024
A Virginia federal judge confirmed the United Steelworkers' win in an arbitration dispute with a shipbuilder over workers' paid time off, or PTO, on Tuesday, but he declined to weigh in on whether the arbitration award required the shipbuilder to give certain workers eight more hours of leave.
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August 13, 2024
Yellow Corp. has asked the Tenth Circuit to revive its $137 million lawsuit accusing the Teamsters of driving the logistics firm into bankruptcy by fighting a necessary corporate restructuring, according to an appeals notice.
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August 13, 2024
The Ninth Circuit may soon weigh whether the U.S. Supreme Court's decision limiting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's use of its in-house court affects the National Labor Relations Board's ability to prosecute companies through in-house administrative proceedings, in a case pitting Macy's against the board.
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August 13, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have teamed up with the Michigan Department of Attorney General to root out misclassification and other violations of workers' rights in the agency's first collaboration with a state attorney general, the board announced Tuesday.
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August 13, 2024
Former Virginia labor department head Courtney M. Malveaux has joined McGuireWoods LLP, the firm announced Tuesday, with the seasoned U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration expert saying he hopes to draw on his experience to help employers going through crisis and incident responses.
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August 13, 2024
As it prepares to merge with a Northeastern law firm at the start of next year, New York-based construction and real estate firm Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP announced the addition of a name partner from another Empire State firm Sahn Ward Braff Koblenz Coschignano PLLC.
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August 13, 2024
Statements former President Donald Trump made during a conversation Monday night with Tesla CEO Elon Musk about workers who go on strike violated federal labor law, according to charges the United Auto Workers filed Tuesday, which also accused Trump of unlawfully suggesting he would fire employees for striking.
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August 12, 2024
A Washington state court commissioner saw "room for disagreement" on Monday over the meaning of a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing a concrete company to go ahead with a lawsuit against workers for allegedly orchestrating a strike to cause property damage, but seemed unsure whether state appellate judges should wade into the dispute.
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August 12, 2024
An administrative law judge rightly concluded that Amazon illegally barred a pro-union banner in the break room at a Staten Island, New York, warehouse, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors argued, saying board precedent doesn't support the e-commerce giant's arguments for preventing workers from putting up the sign.
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August 12, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to nix a two-part legal test available to National Labor Relations Board prosecutors pursuing injunctions in some circuits and standardize the use of a four-part test will not diminish prosecutors' likelihood of winning an injunction against a Michigan hospital, an NLRB official argued.
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August 12, 2024
A decertification petition from the sole worker in a bargaining unit at an architectural metal maker should remain dismissed, a divided National Labor Relations Board panel determined, with the board's lone Republican saying the election bid was wrongly nixed in light of pending unfair labor practice claims.
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August 12, 2024
A former National Labor Relations Board lawyer is returning to Ballard Spahr LLP after a stint with Miles & Stockbridge PC, the firm announced Monday.
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August 12, 2024
A High Point, North Carolina, firefighter who leads his department's union said he's faced serious retaliation from higher-ups for standing up for workers' rights and is now at risk of losing his job for his advocacy work, according to a new lawsuit in North Carolina federal court.
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August 09, 2024
A healthcare union has scored a victory against an Ohio hospital that suspended one of its attendants after he tested positive for cannabis, with a federal judge ruling that an arbitration decision upending the disciplinary action was totally valid.
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August 09, 2024
Employers have had a harder time defending their workplace rules in the year since the National Labor Relations Board reworked its test for when rules unlawfully restrict workers' organizing rights, experts said, as they wait for more litigation to clarify what falls within the rule's stricter limitations.
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August 09, 2024
Four former subsidiaries of the now-defunct coal company Consol Energy Inc. can't challenge an arbitration award that banned unilateral changes to union-represented retirees' health benefits plan, the D.C. Circuit held Friday, saying the ex-subsidiaries weren't parties to the award and aren't injured by it.