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August 01, 2024
An International Association of Machinists local and a Mercedes-Benz dealership told a California federal judge Wednesday that they've reached a deal to end claims that union-represented workers violated federal labor law by blocking a delivery truck from exiting a dealership during a strike.
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August 01, 2024
The head of the National Labor Relations Board's Brooklyn office has declined to pursue a case accusing Amazon of firing a worker for reporting their supervisor to the company's ethics hotline, saying Amazon presented evidence that it fired the worker for "threatening behavior."
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August 01, 2024
A Senate committee on Thursday voted to advance the nomination of National Labor Relations Board Chairman Lauren McFerran and a Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner nominated to fill a Republican vacancy on the board, setting up a high-stakes floor fight over key spots at the agency.
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August 01, 2024
A California tribe's bid to nix an arbitration award over an authorization card check process with UNITE HERE can't proceed for now, a federal judge ruled, saying the tribe's counsel didn't discuss the motion with the union's attorney before submitting it.
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July 31, 2024
The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Wednesday delivered a win for striking unions picketing outside the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's warehouse, upholding a county court's decision that the newspaper's claims that the unions disrupted deliveries were out of its jurisdiction.
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July 31, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is considering furloughing all agency staff for one day in late August to stay under its operational budget, the commission and a union representing its employees confirmed Wednesday.
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July 31, 2024
A decision from the U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board to debar a painting contractor in Minnesota is sustained, a federal judge ruled, saying the company didn't show how the agency abused its discretion with its order over allegedly unpaid prevailing wages.
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July 31, 2024
Attorneys in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division are in the early stages of organizing a union, the union they're seeking to join confirmed Wednesday.
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July 31, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board has moved to unwind a 2020 regulation that curtailed the practice of pausing elections over alleged misconduct and limited an insulation period for voluntarily recognized unions, but experts expect a swift challenge given recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent limiting court deference to federal agencies.
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July 31, 2024
A slate of reform candidates for the Amazon Labor Union won all positions on the ballot in an officers election, the union's new president told Law360 on Wednesday, with the results signifying a "different direction" for the union as it aims to win a first contract at the e-commerce giant.
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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.