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July 19, 2024
A group of security guards at four upstate New York pharmaceutical facilities can vote on union representation, a National Labor Relations Board official said Friday, rejecting their employer's argument that some are union-ineligible supervisors and greenlighting an election for next month.
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July 19, 2024
The practice of labor law is defined by its ideological divide, and few attorneys who start on one side of the labor-management split ever move to the other. Those who have say the move can invite scorn from their former side even as it provides professional satisfaction and a unique perspective on the practice.
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July 19, 2024
A Minnesota restaurant violated the National Labor Relations Act when it put a former server and bartender on probation and then fired her for complaining about her shifts and wages being cut, a National Labor Relations Board judge found.
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July 19, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board dropped its appeal of a Texas federal judge's decision vacating its rule expanding its definition of joint employer under federal labor law, saying it wants to consider its approach to the policy in light of the court's decision.
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July 19, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential final approval of a $5 million deal to end a class action against a nurse staffing agency. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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July 19, 2024
The D.C. Circuit should uphold the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that property management company JLL illegally snubbed the union voted in by a group of California maintenance technicians, board attorneys said, urging the court to reject JLL's argument that the election was tainted.
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July 19, 2024
The AFL-CIO backed the National Labor Relations Board's effort to keep a ruling that Home Depot unlawfully forced a worker to remove a Black Lives Matter message from their apron, telling the Eighth Circuit the decision doesn't affect the chain's freedom of speech.
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July 19, 2024
Douglas J. Klein of Jackson Lewis PC has defended employers against class and collective actions, including federal court cases involving a "naked" class waiver at Insomnia Cookies and wage-and-hour claims against New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, earning him a spot among employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 19, 2024
A status conference is scheduled this week in the National Labor Relations Board's recently revived suit seeking an injunction barring Starbucks from violating federal labor law at stores across the country.
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July 18, 2024
Teamsters President Sean O'Brien's speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention has sparked controversy within the union and broader labor movement as organized labor kicks into gear for a prominent role in the upcoming presidential election.
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July 18, 2024
The Fifth Circuit should block claims that SpaceX violated labor law from proceeding before the National Labor Relations Board because the company has a good shot at winning its constitutional challenge to the agency's structure, SpaceX argued.
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July 18, 2024
The Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday that a former CSX Transporation Inc. engineer waited too long to try to revive his wrongful termination suit stemming from his firing over an online post he made about a fatal train accident.
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July 18, 2024
Barnes & Noble College Booksellers LLC and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union have resolved unfair labor practice claims at a New Jersey store, according to a copy of the settlement obtained by Law360, with the company agreeing to training for management on federal labor law.
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July 18, 2024
An International Longshoremen's Association local violated federal labor law by threatening workers who take part in National Labor Relations Board proceedings, an agency judge determined, saying the union's president unlawfully stated that people who file unfair labor practice claims "would be dealt with."
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July 18, 2024
Allowing the United Auto Workers to withhold information from the court-appointed monitor overseeing its cleanup from days of corruption and embezzlement would undermine the purpose of the monitorship, the federal government and the monitor told a Michigan federal judge, asking him to deny the union's bid to shield documents.
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July 18, 2024
A group of unionized janitors who used to work in the New York City offices of social media company X have settled a suit alleging the company failed to comply with a city law requiring it to keep the janitors on for 90 days after terminating their contract.
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July 17, 2024
New York City's Public Advocate hit the Metropolitan Transportation Authority with a proposed state court class action Wednesday aimed at reversing bus service cuts implemented after Gov. Kathy Hochul abruptly canceled plans for congestion pricing, slashing billions in anticipated revenue for the MTA.
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July 17, 2024
A Broadway producer accusing an actor and stage workers union of unlawfully blacklisting him following a labor dispute over a musical has asked the Second Circuit for another chance to revive the claims.
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July 17, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official properly tossed a union's petition to represent Massachusetts Institute of Technology's graduate fellows, correctly finding that the fellows can't unionize because they don't perform work for the university in exchange for compensation, the NLRB ruled Wednesday.
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July 17, 2024
A unionized California strip club may defend against a claim that it breached a settlement agreement by reopening with changed operations after the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday denied prosecutors' bid for a default judgment.
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July 17, 2024
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a National Labor Relations Board decision Wednesday concluding that an Oregon television station owned by Nexstar violated federal labor law, with the appellate panel supporting make-whole relief for employee negotiators and an order to bargain.
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July 17, 2024
Two workers who were fired after backing a union organizing effort can continue seeking punitive and compensatory damages against a railroad, a Colorado federal district court ruled, supporting a magistrate judge's conclusion that blocking the damages request would "eliminate a significant deterrent."
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July 17, 2024
Bankrupt trucking firm Yellow Corp. hit back at a motion for summary judgment sought by multiple pension funds including Central States Pension Fund, telling a Delaware bankruptcy court that it has no withdrawal liability for backing out of a multistate pension fund for truckers.
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July 17, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board official who won reinstatement for the Memphis 7 — seven worker-organizers fired from a Tennessee Starbucks — must go back to the drawing board now that the U.S. Supreme Court used the case to change the standard for dispensing injunctions, the Sixth Circuit ruled Wednesday.
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July 17, 2024
Labor and employment law firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Wednesday that it has added a partner in Miami with decades of experience who joined from Fox Rothschild LLP.